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...Confused Receptionist: [Laughs.] Are you serious? I don’t have a cup of sugar...

Author: By Joseph L. Dimento, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sweet Nothing | 10/17/2002 | See Source »

...global standards, the pageant would be a catastrophe, but Wangyal has gained the press coverage he sought. Most importantly, he has procured a slot for the winner?19-year-old receptionist Dolma Tsering?at next month's Miss Tourism World contest in Colombia. "Our Miss Tibet will stand alongside a Miss China," he says. "That's when we will really get our message out that Tibet is an independent country." The sponsors have waived the entrance fees, but he still has to find money for airfare and hotel. He shrugs his shoulders with the optimism that has already gotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pretty Independent | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

...Angeles, sits the only factory--you could call it the Global Headquarters--of Faber Enterprises, where 110 workers make precision metal fittings for the hydraulic lines in airplanes. The sun-baked, white facility, nearly the size of a football field, is run so frugally that there is no receptionist, just a phone by the door. But according to the European airplane manufacturer Airbus, this is a world-class shop. Airbus has signed up Faber, which has made fittings for Boeing, to make them for its newest aircraft, the A380...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exporting: America Helps Build the 'Bus | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

Cherifi is one of seven children born to Algerian parents in suburban Paris. His work ethic and above-average intelligence earned him a university degree in mathematics and computer sciences. Gregarious and personable, Cherifi landed a job as head receptionist with an international hotel chain near Paris and later took on a second job with a computer-software firm. In 1999, at the age of 25, he was married, had a young son and was earning a good living. "Nothing in his life, family background or activities indicated Cherifi was harboring the anger, fanaticism and conspiratorial drive of an Islamist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror's Little Helpers | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...However, getting to this scenario was no easy task, he says. He noticed her one month in the dead of winter, her pixie blonde hair bent over the bank’s phone lines, back in the days when she worked as a mere bank receptionist. It wasn’t until he saw her sitting at a sales representative desk in March that he honed in on this juicy target...

Author: By Angie Marek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Working the Streets | 11/8/2001 | See Source »

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