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...hearings in 1991--once law-school professor Anita Hill reluctantly came forward to accuse Thomas of sexual harassment--became one of those events we'll still be arguing about over soft food in the nursing home. They were the first hearings for high stakes played with no rules. The proceedings felt to Thomas like "a high-tech lynching," to Anita Hill like character assassination. (Republicans dredged up the infamous John Doggett 3d, a lawyer who testified that Hill was an erotomaniac for thinking he would ever condescend to date her.) To the rest of us, the hearings felt like must...
...never look at your pet the same way again. In the sun-dappled universe of Cats & Dogs, the live-action comedy opening July 4, a power struggle has been raging in our own backyards since ancient times. Using high-tech spy equipment, man's best friend has kept the peace. And victory is at hand! A nutty professor has almost completed a formula that will eradicate human allergies to dogs, putting canines ahead in the people-pleasing sweepstakes. When an evil white Persian cat launches his plan to take over the world, it's Lou the beagle to the rescue...
...Ajjampur acknowledges that while he had dreamed of working abroad, he had always thought he would move to the U.S., where communities of Indians already exist in high-tech areas. "I heard a lot about Germany, the racism and all that stuff," Ajjampur says of the country's reputation for racially motivated attacks on foreigners. "To my surprise, the people are really warm and friendly...
...highest percentage in Western Europe. In state elections last year, the opposition Christian Democratic Union used as a campaign slogan "Kinder statt Inder," which means "children instead of Indians." The slogan was meant to suggest that the state should properly educate German children to fill the country's high-tech jobs rather than bring in foreigners. But many people considered the phrase anti-immigrant racism...
...Germany's high-tech industry has made much of the fact that for every visa issued to a foreign computer specialist, at least two jobs are created for German workers in support positions such as customer service. And over the past year, opposition to the green card scheme seems to have become muted, with Angela Merkel, the CDU leader, announcing a nuanced change to her party's outright opposition to immigration to allow a small number of temporary visas to help industry fill its job vacancies. But this is indeed a minor shift: when the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schr...