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Maybe he was just in a cruel mood, and felt like teasing me. He'd crawl towards me. He'd crawl away. He'd crawl toward me again. Finally, I left the room to go to the bathroom. When I got back, he was gone. I slept in peace...
...since 1989. Current and former staff members place much of the blame on Dilenschneider. They describe him as a Machiavellian leader with an oversize ego, a brilliant yet cunning bully who compulsively lied and reneged on promises. Insiders say he was so mistrustful of underlings that he rarely delegated, slept little and was often overextended. "One of his bad habits was not showing up for appointments," complains a leading industry consultant, Edward Gottlieb. "This was an indication of the problems he had keeping the huge firm together." Dilenschneider couldn't be reached for comment...
...photographer arrived at the tiny apartment, Linda, who still drinks from a baby bottle, was lying on the floor of her room under a dirty blue comforter, sucking her thumb. She refused to pose for pictures until her father cajoled her with hugs and soothing promises. "We haven't slept for days," Maria said, as camera crews from the local stations camped outside...
...wage end of the work force are beginning to look like what Friedrich Engels found in 19th century Manchester and described as immiserization. Within 10 miles of my suburban home, for example, there is a factory where (until they got a union contract a year ago) the workers slept in their cars and bathed in the restroom -- because, at the minimum wage, housing was not an option. A few miles in the other direction, Salvadoran refugees get $125 in cash for 60-hour weeks of heavy outdoor labor. For them, upward mobility would be a busboy...
...alcohol and drugs, so that disease prevention becomes far more difficult. "Most of the time I had sex with guys I was drunk," says a 23-year-old San Francisco woman who contracted HIV as a teenager. "I never thought a guy would care for me unless I slept with him. I was so uncomfortable with myself I had to be drunk...