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...power Nigeria stepped in to end the impasse. Gambia agreed to scale back ferry fees and Senegal said it would reopen its borders. "The stupid thing is, we are the same people," says money changer Fall. "Our problems come between the authorities, not the people." In Africa, though, the dream of an integrated, borderless future remains a long...
...Promising Actress at the César awards, France's version of the Oscars. Now, in the just-opened film Once Upon a Time in the Oued, she's winning plaudits for her role as a headstrong young woman who wins the hero's heart and makes his unlikely dream come true. Yet for an actress keen to establish a cinematic identity all her own, it's not easy emerging from the shadow of a larger-than-life mother. In addition to looking like her mom, Berry exhibits the same compelling presence onscreen. But Berry takes the inevitable comparison...
...Jesus' life, to show respect and be plausible. The novel reader wants drama and action. Seven-year-old Jesus is largely the good little kid you would expect, and he makes the novel reader in you a teeny bit impatient. When Jesus bumps into Satan in a fever dream, Satan says to him, mockingly, "I'm watching you, angel child! I'm waiting to see what you mean to do." It's hard not to have a little sympathy for the devil...
...combined. As a result, many employees in the private sector will get hit with a double whammy: while their pensions erode, increasingly they will be hit with cuts in government services and forced to pay higher taxes to cover the pensions of public employees, the kind they can only dream about. In three-fourths of the states, public pensions even come with annual cost-of-living increases, a fringe benefit absent from private pensions...
...Businesses in one industry after another are revoking long-standing commitments to their workers. It's the equivalent of your bank telling you that it needs the money you put into your savings account more than you do--and then keeping it. Result: a wholesale downsizing of the American Dream. It began in the 1980s with the elimination of middle-class, entry-level jobs in lower-paying industries--apparel, textiles and shoes, among others. More recently it spread to jobs that pay solid middle-class wages, starting with the steel industry, then airlines and now autos--with...