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...higher level of service, the raises will be there. But they will not be automatic." During the past two years, Allen has levied a 10% pay cut across the board for everyone making more than $35,000 a year, restored it, then imposed it again. He hopes to avoid such measures in the future by doling out raises more judiciously. "It's a change no one really likes," says Stan Beavers, 38, an Avow account executive. "You just have to continue to better yourself, develop the skills to keep competing...
...sparked another loud round of 19th hole, his-and-hers trash talk in a season already spiked by debate about gender equity. When the guns of Augusta started firing--remember Hootie and Martha?--earlier this year, most of the PGA players tried to jump into the nearest hole to avoid the subject...
...Although our May 5 cover depicted a Western face to avoid stigmatizing Asians, some saw the choice as an unwelcome intervention in Mother Nature's affairs. "I would love to have been a fly on the wall when you decided to put a blond-haired, blue-eyed woman on your SARS cover," mused a California man. "Political correctness has morphed into comedy!" Seeing something more akin to tragedy, another Californian called the image a "ridiculous selection" and explained that her ethnically diverse high school students "found the picture to be racist, promoting a fear of Asians." A Massachusetts man also...
...laughable luxury. The thin air sapped our strength, and it was enough to curl up early with a good book. The first two days of the trek were exhausting, as we ascended more than 2,200 meters. Vegetation dwindled from oaks and pines to oxygen-starved, dwarfish rhododendrons. To avoid altitude sickness, we began sleeping no more than 300 meters above the previous night's resting place. This meant some days of short treks simply to acclimatize. Hours were measured out with cups of tea and swapped books. At the Thangsing camp at 3,800 meters we fashioned a ball...
...evocation by Pyle and Faas of war-era Saigon and the world's "first living-room war" is brisk and familiar: the heart-stopping nosedive into Tan Son Nhut airport to avoid sniper fire; the U.S. military's "Five O'Clock Follies" briefings; as well as the discovery that TIME's chief Vietnamese reporter was a spy for the North. I read it with the nagging sense that once you've read all journalistic memoirs from 'Nam, you've still only read one (and it's called Dispatches...