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...commute to work in Israel during the intifadeh. Abu Amira had already collected his ration and loaded it onto his cart. He was sweaty, dirty and angry. He came early, but it was hot even at 8 a.m. First, he pressed through a crowd of men to hand his ticket to a clerk behind a chicken-wire grill. The clerk stamped his ticket and Abu Amira jockeyed at another window for the second stamp required for him to collect his meager ration for the month. His battered donkey cart was loaded with enough milk, oil, sugar and rice to last...
...first proposal involves charging airlines s hefty fee (around $1,000 per takeoff) to leave at prime time (like 5 p.m.) Airlines claim this will just raise ticket prices and will dissuade people from flying. Of course, we all know that if high fares actually served as a deterrent, there wouldn't be 700 million people flying today - and we wouldn't have congestion in the first place...
People who make deals for a living have always fascinated me. High stakes and chutzpah--that's the ticket. Yet beyond the brass, many successful dealmakers possess an enviable skill set--vision, confidence, perseverance, focus, even empathy. Such qualities are the backbone of lasting success in any field, and to the extent they can be learned, we should all crave input. In A Passion to Win (Simon & Schuster), by Sumner Redstone with Peter Knobler, we go to school alongside one of the best. Redstone, a Boston nobody, took over his father's fledgling movie-theater operation and built it into...
...natural for a dolphin to swim in circles in a man-made tank, exposed to loud music; shallow, chemically treated water; and humans. It is not natural for a hungry dolphin to play basketball, tail-walk, sing or dance just to get a dead fish. Buying a ticket to see or play with a captive dolphin is what increases the demand for their capture and subsequently their death. And don't get me started about the people who hop on them for a ride around a pool! MARY KRUGER Toluca Lake, Calif...
...held another round of elections where McCarthy was re-elected as president for his second term, and Eugene Krupitsky `02 was elected as vice-president. Francisco J. Flores was elected as treasurer; all three juniors ran as a ticket for uncontested positions...