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Here in snowy Cambridge, California may seem like a sunny paradise--but after 32 years as a California grape worker, Rosa Felipe says life in the grape vines remains extremely harsh...
...side for Washington, the crisis weakened Asian resistance to extending free trade agreements, resulting in liberalization of trade in nine additional sectors. But, says Branegan, the harsh austerity and privatization programs that accompany IMF loans carry are likely to cause "a long period of political turmoil in Asia." Which means that it may be some time before the tigers again strut their stuff...
Though letters posted on harvard.rec.theater expressed reservation about Susannah R. Mandel's '98 harsh personal criticism in her review of the HRDC production of Macbeth, a number of the postings heaped praise on the head of Mandel for an unusually insightful and informed review...
BAGHDAD: Not another Iraq-U.S. standoff? The two nations traded harsh words over allowing U.N. weapons inspectors to search presidential palaces. While some 75 UNSCOM monitors and a U-2 continued unimpeded in their hunt for chemical and biological weapons Monday, Iraq is continuing to withhold access to 63 possible weapons sites ? including Saddam Hussein's 47 presidential compounds...
...asked his Interior Minister to resign, despite the latter?s good record in the fight against Islamic extremists. But the massacre highlights an intractable problem for the authorities. ?The government have made it very clear that they will not negotiate with the militants,? says Radwan. ?They?ve been using harsh measures up to now, but it hasn?t stopped such attacks ? which are easy for even only a handful of people to carry out.? Radwan believes the most important factor undermining popular support for the militants has been Egypt?s tourism-driven economic recovery. Which is why the optimism...