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...sell. Naturally, much of this has to do with semantics. Says SGEM head David Wong: "SGEM is not a campaign, it's a movement. In Singapore, you associate campaigns with the message that if you trespass, we're going to punish you. A movement is different. We want to adopt a more lighthearted approach." This lighthearted approach spawned the recent SGEM Festival, a hapless exercise in unintended comic surrealism. Driving home from work, I would hear 'NSync-style pop jingles on the radio telling me to "speak clearly." On the cartoonish www.sgem.com website, I took a test to "Have...
Another potential challenger to Arafat is Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, who is a founding member of Fatah, Arafat's political movement. Abu Mazen has been privately urging Arafat to adopt a more conciliatory line with the U.S. and has criticized Arafat's support of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which has been behind many recent suicide bombings. "Abu Mazen is sick of Arafat," a senior Fatah official tells TIME. "He has lost hope of any progress." Abu Mazen visited Washington in early 2001 for prostate-cancer surgery and, while recovering, met with Powell at the State Department...
...still work a six-day week. Korea's labor unions are negotiating with employer groups to give a two-day weekend to the rest of the work force--a measure supported by the government, which may introduce legislation to make a shorter workweek mandatory. South Korea's plan to adopt a five-day workweek is seen as another sign that it is becoming a global economic player that no longer needs an extra day to catch up with its trading partners. The longer weekend is expected to boost Korea's leisure businesses, including restaurants, sports and retailers of outdoor equipment...
...what he considers a far-reaching plan. But the central committee of Sharon's own Likud Party - the majority of whose members want former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rather than Sharon as their candidate in the next election - is having none of it. The party committee looks set to adopt a resolution two weeks from now rejecting any Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. And Netanyahu has taken to the Israeli airwaves, mercilessly chiding Sharon for caving in to U.S. pressure to limit Israel's "Operation Defensive Shield." The intensifying leadership struggle between Sharon and Netanyahu may turn...
...means a one-sided tale. We, the athletes, are equally to blame for the “dumb jock” phenomenon. I have witnessed more than a handful of athletes all too ready to adopt the persona. Sadly, we are an introverted community and do not commit ourselves completely to dispelling the stereotype. The “dumb jock” persona is easy to adopt—it gives the illusion of identity and those outside the athletic community will grant it to you willingly. But in the end the “dumb jock” graduates...