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...Illinois pays jobless benefits only to those who have worked full time, continuously, for 12 months before they lose their jobs. So even though Stewart and his employer paid into the unemployment-insurance fund every week that he worked, he can't draw anything out of it. A single parent, Stewart is supporting his 17-year-old daughter by digging into his savings while he looks for work. But he finds that "there just aren't any jobs out there anymore...
Will Hootenanny follow in the footsteps of its parent chain, Newbury Comics, drawing in crowds even after the Halloween fever has passed? The answer will come only with time, but for now Hootenanny remains the only store to beckon those scurrying around campus with the promise of red sweatshirts adorned with devil horns and pleasure overcoats that will keep their wearers warm as they stumble home during the wee hours of the morning...
...young Palestinians growing up in squalid refugee camps, the injustice must seem unbearable. They know that Israel conquered the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 and have yet to return them in conformance with U.N. Resolution 242, building settlements all the while. Some of these Palestinians had a parent who was killed at Sabra or Shatila; they may even have known a grandparent who felt forced out of Israel, the homeland of Palestinians as well as Israelis, over 50 years...
...grief can be presumed to be greater than anyone else's, but there is something special in a parent's loss of a child, with the wrenching reversal of nature's cycle of generations. Says Patricia Loder, executive director of the Compassionate Friends, an international organization for bereaved parents and siblings, with 600 chapters in the U.S.: "When you lose a grandparent, you lose part of your past. When you lose a spouse, you lose part of your present. But when you lose your child, you lose part of your future." Many of the more than 5,000 people killed...
Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdel Aziz al Saud, who is sixth on the Forbes list of the world's richest people and has some $16 billion invested in such American companies as Citigroup ($9.65 billion), News Corp. ($1.1 billion), Apple ($314 million) and TIME's parent company, AOL Time Warner ($932 million), is known as one of the most ardent Arab supporters of the U.S. "It is my personal duty," he said before leaving Saudi Arabia for a trip to New York City, "to show my alliance and show the real face of the Arab, Islam...