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...personify the continued existence - and perversion - of all those ideas. Ethnic nationalism is as passionate a cause today as any time since World War I. Religious fundamentalism is not only on the rise in the Islamic world, but among Christians and Jews as well. And there is no dearth of extremists like bin Laden who believe they are the last word in absolute truth...
Will such opportunities persist in a postattack economic slump? Nik Theodore, research director of the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago, warns, "When the economy begins to slow down, the staffing industry feels it first." But the dearth of baby-bust workers (born between 1965 and '76) may help counter the bad news. Besides, says Ann Kelleher, president of Mature Resources, an Omaha, Neb., staffing company, special factors may insulate older temp workers, especially highly skilled ones. "We see companies really valuing the work that experienced older workers bring to the table," she says...
What is most disturbing of all is the fact that within the Middle East—where untold multitudes of people espouse beliefs that America’s now-familiar Muslim apologists insist are unrepresentative of mainstream Islam—there is a dearth of institutional voices condemning the fallacies of fanaticism. And yet such condemnations are precisely what is needed. The principled Muslim leaders of the West can do nothing to sway public opinion in Kabul or Karachi, Khartoum or Cairo. Absent a coordinated, concerted and continuous effort on the part of the Middle East’s clerics...
...pamphlet that I was unable to tear myself away from Widener Library. Seeing me emerge from the stacks with my arms full of sources, Werner asked me to join him as an editor. As we began work on the project, what shocked both of us was the dearth of secondary literature available on the topic. Most of Harvard’s institutional history, written from the perspective of Boston Brahmins, was tainted by filiopietism...
...recent years of plentiful work, Congress and most states have cut spending and tightened eligibility requirements on such traditional safety-net programs as unemployment insurance, welfare, Medicaid and food stamps. The General Accounting Office warned in a report to Congress last year that the dearth of unemployment benefits for part-time and low-wage workers could hit particularly hard at women who have recently left welfare for the workplace. "In the event of an economic downturn," the report stated, "many low-wage workers...will be unable to qualify for unemployment-insurance benefits...