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...paying it sober respect. Concedes Gerard Arpey, senior vice president of American Airlines: "Unless we can find a way to lower our own costs, they're going to drive us out of many markets." Southwest has been wreaking turmoil in California, where intrastate fares averaged $200 before it shook up the market in 1991 with $59 tickets. Since then, American, Delta and USAir have scaled back operations in the state, leaving Southwest the No. 1 carrier, with 31% of the business. After Southwest began St. Louis, Missouri-Kansas City, Missouri, service in 1991 and Cleveland, Ohio-Chicago last year, average...
...living with a wealthy Westchester couple, and one night I was awakened by noise," recalls Ferrato. "I grabbed my camera and ran down the hall to find them arguing in their bathroom." As she snapped off a picture, the husband struck his wife. When Ferrato grabbed his arm, he shook her off. " 'She's my wife,' he said, 'and I'm going to teach her a lesson.' He wasn't concerned that I was there. That's true of a lot of these men. They're not ashamed of what they're doing. They feel above the law." Shocked...
MOGADISHU, NO STRANGER TO THE POP-POP OF ISOlated rifle fire, suddenly shook from the thunderous roar of a full-scale military assault. For 20 seemingly endless minutes, U.S. forces directed a massive array of firepower from AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters, M1A1 Abrams tanks and amphibious assault vehicles, all aimed at two arsenals controlled by warlord General Mohammed Farrah Aidid in the Somali capital's northwest. The offensive was ostensibly in retaliation for sniper fire at U.S. troops, but the blazing-gun approach carried a clear warning to Somalia's increasingly bold gunmen that they continue to lurk...
...break down at the thought of his violent father. "I still go up in my hometown in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and when I happen to be home on my birthday, I go and visit the gravesite and talk to him," he said, tears filling his eyes. Then he shook his head, trying to hold it all in, letting go a tiny "Oouuu," then slapping his knees as if to contain the pain again, then letting go another tiny "Oouuu," then looking up and saying slowly, "It's been a while. I should be able to get through this...
Walter Sousa, manager of Prospect Liquor on Cambridge Street, shook his head as he listened to McMahon describe one sting in which two employees stood at the counter discussing the Boston Globe's article on the upcoming sting operation while selling asix-pack to a constable without asking him foridentification...