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...According to the World Jewish Congress, incidents of anti-Semitic violence in Europe have tripled since the start of this latest intifadeh and "the bulk of these have been attributed to Muslims who wish to demonstrate their solidarity with [the Palestinians]." Representatives of both French and British Jewish groups hasten to say they have no quarrel with their Muslim compatriots and both communities have forged ties with local Muslim organizations in efforts to promote understanding. "We musn't allow ourselves be sucked into a political control problem 2,500 miles away," says Richard Stone, a Jew who serves as executive...
...primary strategic mission for Immelt is to hasten GE's transformation from a low-margin manufacturer to a more lucrative services company that sells solutions as much as stuff. In GE's world there are fewer but bigger customers, so there's a vital need to maximize the relationship--to milk them for all they're worth. GE now gets 70% of revenues from services, compared with about 15% when Welch took over. The bulk of it, however, comes from its giant GE Capital subsidiary, with $370 billion in assets...
...ferocious-looking cover photo for our report on shark behavior elicited some rather, well, biting commentary from a few of you. "That TIME would demonize the majestic white shark to sell magazines shows true desperation," snapped a New Yorker. "You will only hasten its demise." A Seattle reader objected to "tabloid-news antics" and questioned why TIME "devoted a cover to shark attacks since, according to the article, dogs bite many thousands more people than sharks do." A tad more appreciative was a reader from Michigan who said he was "glad to see my lawyer made your cover...
...history begins with the death of Princess Di would fall for the argument you can provoke the authorities into system-changing overreaction. It tends to work the other way around. It's a revolutionary's equivalent of the fallacy that otherwise virtuous people, by committing every conceivable abomination, can hasten the advent of the messiah. Any of these revolutionary theoreticians ever hear of the Black Panthers? Of what happened to them...
...parliaments to protest the cabinet's override of the Constitutional Court's decision. The Yugoslav Prime Minister Zoran Zizic and his Montenegrin Socialist People's Party also bolted, stripping the coalition of both its federal governing partner and its majority in the federal parliament. The likely political gridlock could hasten Montenegro's split from Yugoslavia and will hamper efforts to rebuild a devastated economy. A recent World Bank report found that owing to chronic mismanagement, rampant corruption and the burdens of constantly financing wars, Yugoslavia's per capita gdp is just half the size it was in 1989, and unemployment...