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...Soul of the ANC. "And now they're out of the succession loop and out of the policy loop." With Zuma gone and the left in disarray, President Mbeki will find it easier to push through reforms aimed at nudging economic growth above 6%-in particular, a relaxing of labor laws that employers complain make hiring and firing people too expensive. Zuma's demise also clears the way for Mbeki prot?g? Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, appointed by Mbeki to replace Zuma, to sell herself as the new president-in-waiting. "It's an opportunity for her to show South Africans...
...week, this magazine's Editor at Large, Tom Dusevic, was honored at the Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prizes. He won the all-media Commentary, Analysis, Opinion and Critique category for three pieces in the areas of politics, economics and diplomacy, including a major story on former Labor leader Mark Latham in the run-up to last year's federal election ("Latham's Ladder," October 4, 2004). The judges said: "Incisive, lively, beautifully written, Dusevic's piece on Latham was the standout critique of the most analysed person in Australia at the time...
...victims, but an infinite number of ways. “Focus on what you think you can do best,” Khwaja said in the Kirkland Senior Common room, stressing that the biggest resource Harvard students have to offer is their time. “Students are skilled labor at low prices.” When asked what he recommended students who wanted to aid in the relief effort should do, Khwaja said students should first be clear about how much time they have. After that, he said, they must determine whether they are doing something because it will...
President Bush begins this week upbeat after some good news. On Friday, the Labor Department issued November's employment numbers, which showed that 215,000 new jobs were created in fields that span two-thirds of the economy. The report, which many economists greeted as positive but something short of extraordinary, nonetheless prompted Bush to make a short, rallying statement in the White House Rose Garden. Today in Kernersville, N.C., Bush will bring that message to a 15-year-old manufacturing plant jointly operated by John Deere & Co. and Japan's Hitachi...
JOBS. Some folks are strapped after years of a jobless recovery. But this year nearly 2 million jobs have been created in the U.S., and wages and salaries are on the rise. The momentum was reinforced last Friday, when the Labor Department reported 215,000 new jobs in November. "There is a huge disconnect between the headlines and reality," says economist Ed Yardeni at Oak Associates, an investment firm. "It's a prosperous world." But in the consumer's mind, nothing trumps job security. Reuben Kuruvila, 26, of Atlanta, plans to spring a fur coat on his wife. "I really...