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...least, that's the way it used to be. The major carriers have, quietly, made it steadily more difficult to air your complaints to a live human being. "The airlines don't want to talk to their customers," says John Tschohl, a consultant to businesses on customer service. American Airlines stopped taking customer complaints by phone several years ago, according to a spokesperson; putting the complaint in writing, he insisted, is more efficient. United used to have a customer-support number but dropped it "some months ago," according to a reservations agent. (A corporate spokesperson didn't return several phone...
...added that “students are unequivocally free to talk to anyone at anytime,” Oriol was not available for an interview with The Crimson yesterday, but told the Times on Tuesday that “the wording is problematic and it doesn’t really capture our intent...
...drop in the President's poll numbers represents a natural political process. When politicians talk about spending their political capital, they are talking about their poll numbers - and the cliché is somewhat misleading. They are actually investing their political capital, hoping for a greater return if their gamble succeeds. George W. Bush invested his capital in privatizing Social Security, and the stock tanked. Barack Obama is investing in health-care reform. We are at the point of the legislative process where all seems hopeless, but Obama should be heartened by the fact that most of his Republican adversaries oppose...
...Fear, Grassley argues, is part of the process too. "Democracy is at work," he says. "The public hearings have had an impact. Exactly to what extent? I'll have to get back [to Washington] and talk to my colleagues." The question is whether anyone on either side is still willing to listen...
...aftermath of the September 2007 protests, Shwe Zedi, like many monasteries, was forced to shutter. Cautiously, the faithful returned, but dozens of monks are still missing, either toiling in labor camps or having slipped into foreign exile. Yet the monks I spoke to were unafraid to talk. "It is our responsibility to try to change our country," said one, sitting cross-legged on the teak floor. "If the monkhood doesn't do it, who else will?" Another monk padded over to a bookcase, pulled out a Burmese-English dictionary and pointed to a word: democracy...