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At General Motors, where labor strife has lurked below the surface during much of the company's recent history, workers at five different plants who transferred back to GM from its former subsidiary are frustrated by the company's demands for more concessions. Protests by union members are blocking the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UAW Anger at Contract Concessions on the Rise | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

The dinner conversation dramatizes Roth’s self-destructive tension between the inner and outer life, which paralyzes the novel. Ironically, Zuckerman himself lacks a self-sufficient inner life and must search for the nonexistent inner life of the Swede to justify his own mental existence. While the Swede...

Author: By Theodore J. Gioia, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Studying 'American Pastoral' to Understand 'The Road' | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

Such is the mix of anticipation and frustration forming, along with the rain clouds, over the western hemisphere's poorest country. Haiti's challenges seem even more daunting now that a new study by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington has re-estimated the earthquake damage from $5...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti PM: We Can Rise Out of Our Postquake Squalor | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

This is hardly the first time the world has heard renaissance rhetoric about Haiti, a republic long crippled by chronic political and natural catastrophes. And experts say it will take far more than just new agribusiness, especially housing and manufacturing, to make the relocation plan anything besides a pipe dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti PM: We Can Rise Out of Our Postquake Squalor | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

In Sudan's other great unresolved conflict - between Khartoum and the south of the country - another kind of election, a referendum, on whether to secede from the north, is due next year. The north and the south have fought two wars in the last half-century that have killed 2...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan Votes May Spark Progress, Peace for Darfur | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

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