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Employees at Peter Kiewit Sons, a construction giant in Omaha, Nebraska, build tunnels, off-shore drilling platforms and hydroelectric-power dams. A lot of these folks can now afford to have things built for them--say, a new house or a swimming pool. Some 1,000 Kiewit workers and retirees...
Flatbush has always been a neighborhood of strivers, a place where one wave of immigrants washes over another. And the library has always been central to their dreams--a haven where that critical ingredient to success, information, is dispensed for free. But now, as the millennium approaches and more knowledge...
But the film's detractors acquire extra ammunition when the movie, predictably enough, swoons under a case of happy-ending fever. Confirming that the story seems on the brink of really getting interesting, Krueger pulls us away to never-never land and doesn't deal with the intriguing predicament in...
Your article "Rescuing Boris" was a remarkable story of how a population can be changed, directed or led by the visual and printed media [WORLD, July 15]. How different the world would be if Czar Nicholas II had been able to acquire this group of outside advisers to guide him...
The current welfare system needs reform; that much is true. It is a self-perpetuating system, promoting a cycle of dependency. There are those who abuse it, but this new bill is not the way towards a much-needed change. Yes, people on welfare should get job training and work...