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...widely viewed in the Arab world as a legitimate resistance movement to Israeli occupation, Hamas's welfare networks have been extensively funded from abroad (and the movement's terrorists obviously draw from the same coffers). Egypt and Saudi Arabia, in particular, have been putting heavy pressure on Hamas to accept a truce, and the movement's exile leadership have left the decision up to their structures in the West Bank and Gaza - a way of limiting the impact of external pressure. More importantly, Hamas is usually responsive to Palestinian public opinion. If ordinary Palestinians see in the roadmap a prospect...
...three opera houses, five symphony orchestras and three world-class universities, all paid for by the Berlin government; it has 3,000 more police officers than Hamburg, a region of comparable size, and 30% more civil servants. Some of this has to go. "The average Berliner has to accept less culture, moderate cuts in education and a drawing down of the police force," Sarrazin told TIME. "But to be honest, there has been mostly an adverse reaction." The cuts are being felt. Public swimming pools have been closed, a new subway line has been abandoned midway through construction...
Sulzberger, who often tells interviewers about the importance of making mistakes in life, stood by his editor when the crisis broke, saying he would not accept Raines' resignation. But Sulzberger also took an aggressive role in trying to gauge newsroom discontent, including holding a meeting of hundreds of employees in a Times Square movie theater--which made it clear that Raines and Boyd needed to act very fast to fix morale. Among other things, the paper appointed a committee to make management suggestions--and began looking for other Blairs. Then came a second scandal: Rick Bragg, a Pulitzer prizewinning feature...
Some have speculated that his family, particularly his father, pressured him to act, but Sulzberger says that although he talked with family members, he made the decision to accept Raines' resignation himself. He also insists that he did not order the editors to quit. "There was no single 'aha' moment. There was a sense from the two of them that the hill that they had to climb was becoming too steep. And that the cost of that to the institution was becoming too great," says Sulzberger. "And, sadly, I had to agree...
Raising rates is exactly what malpractice insurers failed to do in the 1990s, even as claims were rising. Zuk concedes that the industry has to accept some blame. "No one wanted to be the first guy to say, 'We've got to start charging the right premium,'" he says. The insurers feared losing market share, and as long as investment income held up, they could ignore rising claims...