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...keys to Hamas's popularity is its large-scale welfare arm. Hamas provides educational, medical and other desperately needed welfare services in impoverished West Bank and Gaza towns and refugee camps, creating a marked contrast with the image of corruption and cronyism most Palestinians have of Arafat's administration. The welfare arm also cares for the families of suicide bombers and others who have died fighting the Israelis, making suicide bombing a macabre form of life insurance in impoverished Palestinian communities. The social services performed by Hamas also create a pretext for the massive funding the organization receives from Muslim...
...NEWS. Just as International Truck keeps its unions informed about its finances in good times and bad, Cisco Systems has held firmly, amid the tech recession, to its policy of revealing all product bugs on a public Web page as soon as a problem is reported. In contrast, companies such as Microsoft have been criticized for keeping glitches a secret. Cisco's bug database and online message board help programmers and customers avoid massive problems and share fixes. Says Reichheld, who has studied Cisco's approach: "Loyalty is impossible without trust. And trust is impossible without accurate, reliable information...
Packard has looked more comfortable since playing on the same line as junior Brett Nowack and freshman Rob Flynn. All three players rely on strength rather than finesse in creating scoring opportunities, a good contrast to Harvard’s smaller, quicker first-line...
...contrast, the four large departments whose concentrators were most satisfied in 2001—literature, history and literature, chemistry and environmental science and public policy—made the four greatest improvements from...
...than the time of the year. If these birds find a good food source, he said, they may choose to stay in the area, but a week-long cold spell will likely send them further south. Stauncher birds such as chickadees and sparrows will probably brave the weather. By contrast, migratory birds depend more heavily on a seasonal clock and have likely left the area, Trimble said...