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...miles on his Jeep Cherokee as he roared about questioning residents and checking out the countryside, says he had never covered a story "so intense and frustrating." Nothing, however, could prepare the photographers for what they saw when the story finally broke. "It was total shock," says Katz. "We kept looking for people to come out. Everybody kept yelling, 'Where are the children? Do you see the children?' It was very depressing to see that building go up." At such a point, veteran photographers know, all you can do is take pictures. All we can do, after 51 days...
...proctor called up UHS and they told me to sleep it off," Lee says. "But my proctor looked at me and I was in shock, so they brought me in anyway...
...salarymen, bereft of overtime and entertainment allowances, are having to spend time with wives and children they have barely spoken to for years -- sometimes to their mutual shock. Japanese businessmen are traditionally so lost outside their offices and clubs that many a wife refers to a retired husband as a "damp leaf" -- a sticky annoyance to a woman tidying up a walk...
...must collaborate on projects and share information for the good of the clients and the agency; at ICM it tends to be every agent for himself. Ovitz is a devotee of the ancient Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu, whose Art of War, in addition to emphasizing the use of elite shock troops, extreme flexibility and deception, says that a general must nurture loyalty. "CAA has been there 18 years," says a studio head, afraid like his peers to compliment Ovitz on the record. "It gives them continuity of relationship with their clients that the studios don't have...
After a couple of days to breathe the fresh air of common sense, I began to recognize that my initial shock was nothing more than a symptom of the liberal bias which routinely infects students at Harvard. The "right to carry" law is an important step in empowering the individual citizen, thus increasing freedom from crime and decreasing dependence on the government...