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Fair Bus Fares. Greyhound is offering its first-ever stimulus package for the Northeastern United States: with a three-day advance purchase of one full-fare adult ticket, you may purchase three additional tickets at 50% off. With a 10-day advance purchase, all tickets, depending on availability, are 75% off. Buying a ticket online also gets you 20% off. And if you buy a ticket in the station from Dec. 15 to Jan. 5, 2009, you'll get 20% off your next ticket, good for travel Jan. 6 to March 31, 2009. Call 800-231-2222 for info...
...longer. Starting in early November, four of the five factories abruptly informed their workers that they were switching to a three-day week. Then the layoffs started. The cast-iron foundry, which pays the best wages, cut 80 of its 1,200 workers, and managers announced that they might have to fire up to 600 more. The cable factory - which just this year started up a new production line - laid off 40 people, and cut pay for those who remained by 15%. At least they're being paid: the machinery factory nearby is two months in arrears. "People woke...
...Crimson victories. While the swimmers made the long trek to the University of Georgia for the Georgia Invitational, the Harvard divers traveled to Princeton to compete in their Ivy League nemesis’ home Big Al Invitational. The men’s swimming segment returned to Cambridge after its three-day contest with a second-place finish, while the divers left New Jersey with a solid eighth. GEORGIA INVITATIONAL The Harvard men’s swim team traveled south this past weekend, capturing a strong second-place finish in the Georgia Invitational. Harvard completed the three-day contest with...
...Bordering on War The shock of the attacks and the slow agony of watching the three-day siege unfold on television immediately invited comparisons to the Sept. 11, 2001, acts of terror in New York City. "This is our 9/11," was the refrain heard from both Mumbai's citizens and other Indians. It wasn't long before someone followed that thinking to its logical conclusion: bomb Pakistan, just as the U.S. bombed Afghanistan. Simi Garewal, a former actress and talk-show host, said on a cable news show that "America gave out the right signals to the world that they...
...jihadists who tore up Mumbai last week rely on party drugs usually associated with Western decadence to stay awake and alert throughout their three-day killing spree? Britain's Telegraph newspaper suggests that they did, citing unidentified officials claiming physical evidence shows the assailants used cocaine and other stimulants to sustain their violent frenzy. And if the notion of self-anointed holy warriors on a coke binge sounds incongruous, the report also maintains that the killers imbibed the psychedelic drug LSD while fighting advancing security forces...