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Until he was ousted last week, chairman Stephen Wolf was arguing that layoffs would be required to help put the carrier firmly in the black. Wolf's track record makes his prognosis hard to ignore. He strengthened the airline considerably during his six years at the helm, aggressively expanding United's worldwide route system, adding key gateways like Chicago-Tokyo -- now the airline's most profitable route -- all the while cutting costs by about $1 billion annually over the past three years. Wolf's determination to demand deep new pay cuts and layoffs, which might have triggered a bitter...
...Rudnick wrote the original script for Sister Act and the final version of The Addams Family, but his name was on neither film. Carrie Fisher did a polish on Sister Act, but her work was anonymous, as it was on Hook, Made in America and Lethal Weapon 3. On Wolf, Wesley Strick's surgery earned him co-author credit; Elaine May's consultation was a secret known only to all Hollywood...
...same time, Kim Jong Il's life is swaddled in layers of official fable worthy of a demigod. His birth was foretold by a swallow. A double rainbow appeared over sacred Mount Paektu when he was born. The mythographers have not claimed that he was suckled by a she- wolf and tutored by centaurs, but their hyperbole in other matters is nearly that far a reach. Jong Il supposedly has mastered all knowledge, and his thoughts are studied at great world universities. In fact, his only travels outside his homeland -- a cause of real concern for other governments -- have been...
...same field, awaiting the same duty, Charlie Martin, 42, leader of the Wolf Creek Hotshots from Glide, Oregon, said of his job, "I've been to places in Montana and Alaska that no one else has. That's the romantic, exciting side. But the other, real side is that it's hard and dirty work." Fred Burger, 34, one of Martin's warriors, agreed: "It's an adrenaline rush. But it's also falling down cliffs, dodging dead trees and rocks falling on you, breathing thick smoke, not knowing where...
Still another Wolf Creek Hotshot, Richard Tingle, 34, spoke of the release into selflessness that joining a fire-fighting team can bring: "You're not an individual here. If you work as one person, you'll never make it." And a few veterans casually mentioned the pay, which can reach $200 a day. Some fire fighters, so the stories they tell one another go, earn enough during the summer months to pay college tuition or living expenses for the rest of the year...