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After high school, one of her first jobs was in a mail-order company where women made $3 an hour for working the line. Boe decided to load mail trucks with the guys for a 50-cent raise in pay. At 21, she was driving a meat truck around the North Shore, braving slaughterhouses and blood-covered butchers to haul crates of beef. Not long after, she was driving 18-wheelers. All jobs that relatively few Smith students have on their college resumes...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, | Title: POSTCARD FROM OXFORD: The Road to Northampton | 7/13/2001 | See Source »

Even now, she admits to being at a nexus; driving her truck and taking classes, doing her homework at 4 in the morning, falling asleep in the library, staying awake behind the wheel. A severe shoulder injury at work in October has forced her to look at things with a new perspective and wonder if it’s time to concentrate all her energies on education...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, | Title: POSTCARD FROM OXFORD: The Road to Northampton | 7/13/2001 | See Source »

...said an FBI sketch of John Doe No. 2 was based on images captured by a surveillance camera in a bank near the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla. In fact, the sketch was based on an FBI interview with the man who rented to McVeigh the Ryder truck used in the bombing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 9, 2001 | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...your husband's popularity affected your private lives? A: One of the reasons I did support him in his decision to make himself available for a second term was seeing people's reaction to him. It may be the truck driver who drove past us yesterday leaning out of his window or the homeless man we met in Central Park last week who shook his hand. Is it also the countless letters from people around the world putting their trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woman Of The World | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...strategy was to prime the public for Milosevic's transfer by releasing reports of police discoveries of mass graves within Serbia containing bodies of Kosovar civilians executed by Serb soldiers during the nato air war. Most shocking was the revelation that security forces in April 1999 destroyed a refrigerated truck dredged from the River Danube that held dozens of Albanian corpses. Milosevic allegedly ordered the troops to bury corpses in secret locations in an effort to hide evidence of war crimes. According to Ljiljana Bacevic, a researcher at Belgrade's Institute for Social Sciences, 75% of Yugoslavs now believe Milosevic...

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

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