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...committing suicide] the biggest sin of all?” wonders one of the characters in the selection. “I can see that it’s a sort of queue-jumping. But if you jump in a queue, people tut, they don’t say, ‘You’re going to burn in hellfire for all eternity...
...commonly supposed that there's nothing nicer than sitting in a Florentine café or Beijing teahouse, with postcards fanned in front of you to craft elegant missives to loved ones. But the attractions of sending your wish-you-were-heres digitally are harder to resist. Why queue in a dingy post office, fumble with unfamiliar coins and try to buy stamps in a language you don't speak, when you can just use your phone to take a picture of the Acropolis or the Kremlin and fire it off to anyone you like? If you don't have...
...companies, they'd love to jump in, but are still barred by U.S. sanctions - which are unlikely to be lifted with an election on the way. - By Bruce Crumley and Adam Zagorin We Owe You Money? Get In Line Britons are famed for loving an orderly queue. But a new law may cause chaos in the ranks of those seeking to wring funds from insolvent firms. Unleashed last week, the Enterprise Act makes it harder for banks to push a firm into receivership (almost 20,000 U.K. businesses failed last year). Instead, it promotes the appointment of administrators acting...
...course, my place to compare the relative legacies of these two great institutions, but I was struck during my visits to West Point by an image impressed on the minds of its cadets. At West Point, they call their graduates the long gray line, the queue of soldiers who have put their bodies in front of bullets for the ideals and well-being of their country. When each cadet graduates, he earns his commission as an officer in the U.S. Army and takes his rightful place among the honored group of men who have earned the like distinction...
...place of wonder and, like so many works of genius, deeply flawed. The meeting area was shabby and tiny; there were few shops and restaurants air-side. In the event of delays the terminal was soon crammed with a queue for taxis as long as Hong Kong's famous Lantau Trail. Even Kai Tak's greatest fans acknowledge that it had long since reached its capacity, but it didn't make saying goodbye any easier. And no one loved the airport in the guts of the city more than the spotters. To them Kai Tak was the best airport ever...