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...Sept. 11, 2001, do not require contact with one another, or a central authority, to act as al-Qaeda would want them to. "Bin Laden unleashed forces accumulating for many years, and all the gloves are off now. Centralized clearance is not needed," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland...
...return to the draconian methods of the Suharto days." Says Wolfowitz: "Americans need to understand we're dealing with a country that only recently became free after 50 years of dictatorship. Indonesians are leery about giving too much authority to the police." Whatever the causes, says Rohan Gunaratna, an expert on al-Qaeda at St. Andrews University in Scotland, Indonesia is "the only place in the world" where radicals linked to bin Laden "aren't being hunted down...
...hours a month, compared with 80 hours at many other airlines, says union president Thom McDaniel. Southwest attendants are required by contract to "make a reasonable effort to tidy the airplane" between flights, a chore that other major airlines pay contractors to do. According to an airline labor expert, senior flight attendants at United get as many as 52 vacation days (compared with 35 days for veterans at Southwest). And they never have to clean up after the passengers...
...abuse didn't take away my religion," says Collins, a Dublin housewife who no longer attends Mass. "The two years trying to get Cardinal Connell to do the right thing did." A tide of similar complaints that peaked in the last two weeks now finds Connell, 76, a fastidious expert on Aquinas who wrote his doctoral thesis on angels, being heckled at Mass, reading editorials demanding his resignation and, since last week, facing a tough government inquiry. The widespread view that he has tried harder to stifle bad publicity than to confront this crisis is undermining his church - which...
Henry Wechsler, a social psychologist and lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health and a national expert on collegiate drinking, has argued that the benefits of the keg restriction outweigh the drawbacks...