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...rubble. Later, the last, dogged hope abandoned to the harsh realities of the site, it became a salvage job: Pull the wreckage apart, keep your mask on, pray none of the broken steel beams falls on you. This was a daily grind cloaked in mindfulness, punctuated by constant, grim reminders of death and loss, spent sifting through the wreckage in hopes of finding human remains...
FRANK MILLER BRINGS THE EDGE BACK WITH A GRIM "THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS...
George Bush's call for a Middle East peace conference gives the region a new structure to build on, and this week Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will visit Washington for talks. But life in the West Bank and Israel remains grim. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has tabled the Security Council initiative to send a team to visit Jenin, revealing just how contentious the key issues...
...also negotiated the implementation of France's 35-hour workweek with unions and employees. Between working, driving his five daughters to school and following auto racing, Edouard takes the time to explain how the 1999 restructuring plan and shift in sales strategy allowed Michelin to survive a globally grim 2001 and report earnings of ?314 million on sales of ?15.77 billion. Such collective efforts to remain profitable and attentive to quality are what inspired the share offering to staffers. "It's an opportunity," he says, "for employees to be rewarded beyond a simple paycheck." Q&A TIME: Why the shift...
...While nobody expects the Maoists to march into Kathmandu and seize power, the prognosis is grim. Preoccupied with factional fights within the Nepali Congress Party and in command of a poorly equipped army of just 45,000, Prime Minister Deuba has little chance of regaining much land in Maoist hands. All through rebel territory, police checkpoints, if they exist at all, go unmanned. Deuba came to power just under a year ago as a peacemaker, promising talks with the Maoists. But when the guerrillas broke off their truce in November, he declared a state of emergency and ordered the army...