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...could smoke with the unionists and try to communicate with hand gestures. Kang In Hee, secretary-general of the union, reciprocated. At one meeting, Zahner asked about the red bandannas worn by all labor activists in Korea. Knowing Zahner's interest in the bandannas, Kang brought an extra one, and presented it to him as a gift. Zahner saw that moment as a breakthrough in the talks. He says the bandanna will be "a treasure that I'll keep the whole time I'm in the industry." It took six months, but in late April, the union consented to changing...
...minor incidents from time to time before, but never anything like house-breaking, or incidents in such frequent succession,' says Yoshiaki Yasuda, liaison to the Navy's Yokosuka base for the Kanagawa prefectural government, which, along with the Yokosuka government, formally complained to the U.S. Navy twice in August. Extra-curricular shore leave activities weren't the only reason for Hejl's dismissal. The 41-year-old Kitty Hawk recently failed an engineering assessment and earlier this year in Singapore struck a buoy while Hejl was at the helm. The dismissal of a carrier captain is rare, but with...
Getting basic keelboat certification can involve as little as four days of combined classroom and sailing instruction, costing about $500. More advanced certification, usually requiring living on board a larger or more sophisticated craft for a few extra days, can run $2,000. Some sailors work their way up from keelboat basics and earn certificates to sail boats...
...really personal shopper. For $1,500 a day, she'll take you and your friends to the chic boutiques in Paris and make sure you get the treatment from the snooty sales assistants that your hard-earned greenbacks deserve. But just in case you don't have an extra few thousand to unload, here are some of her secrets. They should work at the mall...
Where have you gone, Bud Selig? As players and owners went into extra innings in baseball labor negotiations, the nation turned its lonely eyes to the sport's commissioner, and found - well, very little. Selig was conspicuous in his absence from talks as a strike threatened, and even when he did arrive, two days before the strike deadline, he remained aloof. And so, as the man who very nearly became the only baseball commish to preside over two work stoppages, Bud Selig is our Person of the Week...