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...from the looks of it, Wolf has merely sped up his own death prediction by a few years: US Airways now wants to compete in the most viciously competitive part of the air travel market - the low-cost segment now patrolled by the likes of Southwest and JetBlue. US Airways has long carried the highest costs in the industry; Southwest and JetBlue are the lowest-cost, highest-efficiency sharks in the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: US Airways Tries Another Tactic | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

...policemen. "Get ready to go," the warden said. When Milosevic asked where, the warden told him, "To the Hague." Milosevic got up, changed out of his track suit and into a jacket and tie and went with the police. A blue-and-white van, commonly used for transporting prisoners, sped past a group of unwitting journalists and headed for a police base in the nearby suburb of Batajnica, where officials from the United Nations' war-crimes tribunal in the Hague were waiting. "They read him his rights, we signed the papers and that was it," a Serbian official told TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milosevic: The End of The Line | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...been thinking about retirement. But she practiced Falun Gong and protested in Tiananmen Square. Upon being arrested, police escorted her by bus back to her hometown; there, colleagues were waiting at the station with the hospital's Volkswagen. She was handed over to her friends, and the car sped off?away from her home. "Where are we going?" she asked. The answer came when they pulled up to the gates of a mental institution and her co-workers advised her to submit to therapy. She had no record of mental illness. "I've known these people 10 years," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Breaking Point | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

...panicked Yates sped home, where police were already gathered. His wife was being led away, and their five children, ranging in age from six months to seven years, were dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Discussion: The Houston Child Killings | 6/22/2001 | See Source »

...There are other signs of desperation. Macedonian police recently began handing out automatic weapons - about 2,000 so far - to "reservists," especially those who belonged to Georgievski's VMRO-DPMNE political party. Similar efforts in the early '90s had sped the descent into war in nearby Croatia and Bosnia. Graffiti signaling the emergence of Macedonian Slav paramilitaries is scrawled in Cyrillic on walls in Skopje's tumble-down neighborhoods. And when the government recently asked for some of the weapons distributed to "reservists" to be handed back, it had only minimal success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Macedonia: Chronicle of a Tragedy Foretold | 6/22/2001 | See Source »

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