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Valeri Matashenko used to be a waiter at a state-owned restaurant in Moscow. Now he sells ice cream and loads delivery trucks on the streets of the capital. Matashenko, 38, concedes that his present occupation may lack prestige, but it enables him to earn enough for his family. It has also instilled in him a fundamental respect for free enterprise, reflected in his choice of candidates. "I'm for Yavlinsky," he declares. "He is more radical, and I think he can do what he says about the economy. Yeltsin has a reputation that's not good...
That summer, Capello left LSU and Southern and moved in with his sister, who was then a senior at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In Washington, Capello held down three jobs: as a bass teacher in a music store, as a waiter in a local restaurant, and as a free-lance bassist playing two to three gigs a week. Simultaneously, he enrolled in Georgetown and George Washington Universities, where he took college courses in Italian, physics, aesthetics, philosophy and psychoanalysis. And he earned straight...
Kelsey L. Miller, a waiter at the Faculty Club, represented the workers' attitudes fairly well when she said, "I'm demonstrating because our contract comes up in two months and because management treats us like shit." The behavior of management, then, is the immediate cause, but the ultimate cause is that of contract renewal. The workers want leverage in order to gouge the University for money. Not that workers shouldn't be allowed to act out such petty ploys, but it is certain that their demands are not in the interests of the students who will ultimately bear the burden...
...UNCOMMON FOR FILMMAKers to have problems with their stars, but writer-director David O. Russell had an unusual conflict while shooting his second feature film last year: Should he or should he not tell Alan Alda he had been a waiter at Alda's daughter's wedding just a few years earlier? "Every time I was about to, I thought, 'Don't tell him. He's not going to take your direction the same way if he knows that...
...takes a seat at a table and divulges to a reporter her secret way of getting quicker service at snobby restaurants. Recently, when she was eating out, Bjork explains, "I had an apple in my bag, and so I picked it up and started eating it. There was a waiter there like this!"-she snaps her fingers. "So if you bring your own sandwich and you start eating it, they'll come quickly...