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...workers say they have given up cost-of-living allowances, overtime after eight hours in place of wage increases, a holiday, some break time, the jobs bank and education benefits. Entry-level wages have been cut in half, which has translated to even lower production-labor costs. "We will not stand for further concessions negotiated by our representatives," proclaimed a resolution that was turned in for consideration at the UAW convention in June by workers from the Ford assembly plant in Chicago. "I've never seen people so frustrated," says a veteran UAW official in Detroit. "These are hard jobs...
...Obama's critics only have it half right. His presidency is in crisis. But it isn't too late to turn things around. The President may be more of a basketball man than a football fan, but he needs to heed the advice of two great gridiron coaches to head off Cheney's confident prediction. "The future is now," George Allen used to say. And, in the words of Al Davis, "Just win, baby...
...Still, echoing the sentiments of many development experts, Bellerive insists the quake's obliteration has yielded an opportunity to realize changes in Haiti - in as early as "four to five years," he believes - that might not have been possible before. The most important, he says, is the "deconcentration" of half a million Haitians away from Port-au-Prince. (There, he admits, the death toll was so high in large part because Haiti has had "no policy on controlling the population" of more than 2 million in a city where barely a million can fit.) As a first step toward creating...
...Sudan's other great unresolved conflict - between Khartoum and the south of the country - another kind of election, a referendum, on whether to secede from the north, is due next year. The north and the south have fought two wars in the last half-century that have killed 2 million people, and an overwhelming majority of southerners are expected to opt for their own independent state. The approaching reality of that separation seems to have persuaded Sudan to accept what previously provoked them into war. Last month, Bashir announced that if the south did vote...
...After decades of war and chronic underdevelopment, David Gressly, the U.N.'s regional coordinator for southern Sudan, reckons that it will take billions more dollars in aid and another "10 to 15 to 20 years" of international assistance to get the place on its feet. But after more than half a century of suffering in Sudan, the approach of two votes is achieving far more than sanctions, peacekeepers, the ICC or George Clooney. That's a boost for democracy in a continent that could sorely use some more...