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...dealing with this lasting pain is to talk about it. I frequently discuss Sept. 11, often with those who have been most affected by the attacks. I try to confront what was done to us and the importance of being resolute. I've also attended many memorials and funerals, which reinforced a lesson my father taught me long ago about being there for people when they need you most. It's a two-way street. People absorb strength from you, and you get it back from them...
...Ornery employees are not the only problem GM must confront in the coming months. Since 1998, Daewoo's market share in Korea has tumbled from nearly 30% to under 12%. Its factories run at about half their capacity. In late August, the plants were shut entirely when a major supplier stopped shipping parts after Daewoo failed to pay for previous orders. GM expects Daewoo will need three years to get its production up to the point where it can break even...
...initial targets for greenhouse-gas reductions seem modest. The project's website proposes reductions of just 2% below 1999 levels, plus an additional 1% cut with each passing year. In contrast, scientists warn we must cut our fossil-fuel addiction by as much as 70% to confront global warming effectively...
...London and one of Elworthy's performers. "But if we can get people to experience through the arts some of the problems with that response, maybe the memory of what they felt then will give them pause when they face an important decision. The theater has the power to confront such issues because it's primarily entertainment." Rylance also quotes Shakespeare on the role of an entertainer from As You Like It: "Invest me in my motley: give me leave/ To speak my mind, and I will ... / Cleanse the foul body of the infected world." To mourn, to discuss...
...Jersey, where four anthrax-laced letters were postmarked last year. COLOMBIA State of Emergency Newly installed President Alvaro Uribe declared a state of emergency in response to a wave of attacks by Marxist guerrilla groups. The decision will allow the President to impose new legal and security measures to confront what his government called "a regime of terror in which democratic authority is sinking." As one of the first consequences of the state of emergency, the government decreed a one-time tax, which is aimed at raising $780 million to finance extra military spending. MEANWHILE Elvis is Toast New Zealander...