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...Over a thousand building trade workers in Boston have honored the picket lines, often losing pay. The Teamsters are not making deliveries to any building where janitors are striking; construction crews stayed off affected construction sites, including a new building at Northeastern University. Such solidarity is crucial to the success of the strike...
What does it take to become a successful poet today? Basically, a miracle. Books of poetry, after all, rarely sell. A few thousand copies are considered more than respectable by most publishers. A few hundred thousand? Only the rarest and luckiest of American poets have seen such numbers. Just ask the best-selling poet in the U.S. today. Then again, don't bother. A Muslim mystic born in Central Asia almost eight centuries ago, he is no longer available for comment...
...Qiao Liang, a P.L.A. colonel who is about to publish a book called Decisive Strike, is among those in China who wonder if America has the stomach for a showdown. "Is the U.S. prepared to spend all its national wealth defending Taiwan?" he asks. "Because China will be a thousand Afghanistans...
...family history has helped. "Every time I talk about my father," she says "I feel I learn something new." Nearly 6 million Jews from Central and Eastern Europe perished in the Holocaust. Many more moved away after the war. Outside the old Soviet Union only a few hundred thousand remain. Survivors like Judit Kinszki, who remember the way things were, are a dwindling few. They have a story to tell, and now there are places to tell...
...year ago the events on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 found me alone a few thousand feet above Corpus Christi, Texas. I was about 20 minutes into a routine training flight in my T-45 Goshawk (the Navy’s jet trainer) when the radio traffic suddenly got very busy. Within a few short minutes, I was instructed to abort my flight, return to base and land as soon as possible. Once on the ground, as I shut down my jet, a member of the ground crew climbed up to the canopy and told me over the noise...