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...could hurt the huge aerospace industries - and their hundreds of thousands of employees - on either side of the Atlantic. It's been a high-flying journey for Airbus, a company founded in 1970 as a government-backed consortium to forge a European answer to America's hegemony in civil aviation. Although the firm struggled during its first decade, funding from France, Germany, Spain and Britain helped keep it afloat - and still provides assistance today, though the company is flourishing. Airbus, which is owned by the Franco-German-based conglomerate European Aeronautic Defense & Space Co. and British-based BAE Systems, just...
...find Abbas’ approach promising. Through a negotiated cease-fire with Palestinian militants, Abbas can buy time until prospects of a concrete peace plan with Israel emerge and until the Palestinian Authority attains enough power to confront militants head-on. Such steps are needed to avoid a Palestinian civil war, and Abbas’ approach, while imperfect, deserves a chance...
...Post-civil rights America likes to think of itself as rising up by its bootstraps, Louie said in a recent interview. And the “model-minority myth”—the idea that Asian Americans can succeed in the United States regardless of their background—only propagates the idea that class and race doesn’t matter...
...resulting reluctance of many Sunnis to accept the outcome - could compound Sunni alienation from the post-Saddam order. Indeed, a discreet State Department poll recently found only 12 percent of Sunnis believe the poll will be legitimate or fair. Aware of the danger of escalating a sectarian civil war, leaders of the Shiite alliance have identified reaching out to the Sunnis as a top priority after the election. A Sistani aide told an Arab newspaper last weekend that the Grand Ayatollah believed "the representation of our Sunni brethren in a new government would have to be effective regardless...
...class-action lawsuit. In a nice modern-day example of Hammurabi’s Code, women who have been humiliated by being forced to take their pants off, can now retaliate by suing the pants off TSA. The New York Times reports that Norman Siegel, a prominent New York civil rights lawyer, has started looking into possibilities for a class-action lawsuit...