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Hoffa once tried to sum up in four short sentences his career after he left school at the end of the seventh grade: "I got a job in a department store--stock boy. Then I got a job at Kroger's. And that's my whole life. Pretty simple life." It was a lot more complicated than that. But in one sense Hoffa's career indeed followed a simple line: straight up the ladder of labor-union power ... Hoffa's rise to power and the uses he has made of it are detailed and documented in the McClellan committee record...
...there are 1 million to 2 million. At the same time, the state's human population has exploded. As a result, development is pushing into wetlands that were once pure, alligator-friendly wilderness, and agriculture is draining huge swaths of alligator habitat. Everglades National Park is just one-seventh the size of the historic Everglades swampland, forcing the animals to share territory that humans consider their...
...until 2004, when he followed Goss back to the CIA as a consultant after Goss became director. Officials said, however, that the two are not personally close. A person who spoke on behalf of Bassett said his consulting work for the CIA has not involved work on the ?Seventh Floor,? the area where the director?s suite is located and top Agency management works...
...floods hit the St. Bernard housing project in New Orleans' Seventh Ward with a determined fury. In desperation, says Randy Nathan, 20, trapped residents screamed at passing helicopters and set off firecrackers to attract attention. But no rescuers came. "We had to make a move," he says. "The water was rising. We had too many babies and my grandma...
...Crimson finished with 137 total points, just two ahead of fifth-place Yale.The B-division team of senior skipper Vincent Porter and senior crew Ruth Schlitz paced Harvard, finishing second overall.Captain skipper Clay Johnson and junior crew Emily Simon guided their A-division boat to a tie for seventh place.“At the beginning, Clay and I didn’t start particularly well,” Porter said. “We were definitely a little disappointed about how we sailed.”The poor start left the team with a lot of room to make...