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...troubled relationship with the truth and his checkered past in the aforementioned regions are enough to destroy any faith they have in his intentions or willingness to carry out this plan. Such skepticism, in my opinion, is more than fair—but skepticism does not demand obstinate opposition, it merely demands vigilance on behalf of higher moral principles. Bush has taken the first step, and it was in the right direction. It is now up to those of us, red or blue, who are prone to moral posturing to seize on the president’s words and force...
...strange irony, another group of people came out onto the streets last week to publicize their demands: the families of the victims of Beslan. Since Jan. 20, several hundred have occupied a major highway in North Ossetia, cutting off all traffic, to draw attention to their demand for the resignation of Alexander Dzasokhov, President of North Ossetia, whom they hold responsible for last year's tragedy. Some inside the Kremlin fear that Putin's combination of concessions and crackdowns won't be enough to stop the same thing being demanded...
...Hakim's bluff. But the Pentagon believes a precipitous U.S. withdrawal would condemn Iraq to a bloodbath wrought by Sunni insurgents against a weak central government that might then be tempted to seek help from Iran. That said, the U.S. is well aware that the Iraqis will probably demand that the Americans start making plans to leave. In November the CIA's departing station chief in Baghdad sent a cable to Washington predicting that the new government would insist on a schedule for the withdrawal of U.S. troops. A State Department official tells TIME, "We always expected to face...
...contributed to a surplus of global production capacity for all kinds of goods, from sneakers to DVD players to plastic lawn chairs. With the price of raw materials rising and factory profit margins shrinking, blue-collar workers are at the losing end of a long chain of supply and demand...
...just as for oil and soybeans, the labor market is also subject to the rules of supply and demand?and the Pearl River Delta is facing a manpower shortage of 2 million workers, according to the Labor Ministry survey. Manufacturing capacity has expanded so rapidly in the past several years that the stream of migrants from the poor countryside is no longer large enough to replenish the labor pool. Rising agricultural incomes in recent years have started to keep many would-be migrant workers back on the farm...