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During the five-day strike last week, many teaching assistants at both schools did not teach their regular classes and instead stood in picket lines or participated in rallies...
...into the cabin, everyone got quiet. As most people do, I underestimated how quickly the smoke would fill the space, from ceiling to floor, like a black curtain unfurling in front of us. In 20 sec., all we could see were the pin lights along the floor. As we stood to evacuate, there was a loud thump. In a crowd of experienced flight attendants, still someone had hit his or her head on an overhead bin. In a new situation, with a minor amount of stress, our brains were performing clumsily. As we filed toward the exit slide, crouched...
...demand that Taft's subordinate be taken off the case. A witness to their discussion described Bolton as "shouting" and "yelling" at Taft. "But that was nothing unusual," a former official who was present tells TIME, "because John was always a strong friend of his own opinion." Taft stood by the lawyer and refused to remove...
...many ways,' DeLorean said in 1980, 'Jesus was an outsider. Some of the really big things in life are achieved by those who refuse to conform. I stood up for what I believed. I'M AN OUTSIDER, AND IN MY OWN SMALL WAY I'M TRYING TO DO SOMETHING.' No one ever accused DeLorean of lacking hubris. But from all the evidence, his life has been less devoted to piety than to speed and glitter. 'I live on adrenaline,' DeLorean said flatly 13 years ago, when he was a golden boy at General Motors ... A few months ago, just when...
...death throes after being hit with multibillion-dollar back-tax claims that its erstwhile owners say were part of a Kremlin campaign against them. A Moscow court is expected to deliver its verdict this week on Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former Yukos chief executive and a major shareholder, who has stood trial on multiple charges of fraud and tax evasion and could face up to 10 years in jail if convicted...