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...family ties in Shenyang, most of the jobless have not joined the floating population of migrants, now at least 100 million strong, who drift around China searching for work. So the city has permitted a handful of carefully controlled labor markets to help employ a few thousand of the laid off. At a grubby park in Tiexi, the city lets job seekers "advertise" their skills for a few cents. At a stranger's approach, they point eagerly at hand-lettered signs identifying them as would-be cooks, maids, nannies, hotel clerks, laborers. But at least half a dozen armed police...
...from now, we will be known as neo-isolationists who allowed tyranny and lawlessness to rise again; or as the generation that solidified the global triumph of democratic principles. We will be known as the neo-protectionists, whose lack of vision produced financial meltdown; or as the generation that laid the groundwork for rising prosperity around the world. We will be known as the world-class ditherers, who stood by while the seeds of renewed global conflict were sown; or as the generation that took strong measures to forge alliances, deter aggression and keep the peace...
...Hilton hasn't gone away, so Araskog has turned from defense to a scorched-earth policy that is beginning to seem aimed more at saving the CEO's crown than protecting shareholders' interests. Having sold nearly all nonessential holdings--including one of its two corporate jets--and laid off 125 people at its New York City headquarters, ITT is now stripping away promising casinos and profitable hotels, the very heart of the svelte new company that Araskog says he wants to create. Recently ITT sold five Sheraton hotels for $200 million, without competitive bidding, to FelCor Suite Hotels, the largest...
DIED. ROBERT SERBER, 88, unapologetic nuclear physicist whose briefing to an elite corps of scientists at Los Alamos, N.M., in 1943 laid the groundwork for atomic destruction; in New York City...
...will return to serve on religious boards, to head city planning commissions, sit on the bench, flip pancakes at school breakfasts and raise children. We will return, sometimes in spite of the best-laid plans, because we wonder who will act if we do not. We will think of how our communities could benefit from the liberal education we have received. And we will know that we have a responsibility to give back to the towns that raised...