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...sweeping cuts in production also have sparked speculation that Ford, like GM, will offer buyouts and or early retirements to virtually all of its blue-collar workers, providing the United Auto Workers agrees, in a bid to dramatically reduce costs. Paul Krell, a spokesman for the UAW, declined to comment but privately a number of union officials acknowledge that a GM-style deal is in the works...
...performance. Where she fell short, however, was in her failure to address why that is so. Doesn't she think male underachievement is a problem? She seemed to enjoy the fact that in our feminized culture, when it comes to higher education, the average guy is truly left behind. Paul V. Phillipino Falmouth, Massachusetts, U.S. Isn't it strange that just when more women than ever graduate from college and university, their degrees seem to count for nothing? Suddenly, no matter how good your grades are or how many projects you have worked on, what really counts are soft skills...
...areas - setting up checkpoints, patrolling in vehicles and on foot, launching midnight raids - it is not nearly as aggressive in Sadr City, where an uneasy accommodation has been reached with the Mahdi Army. "There's some sensitivity when going into Sadr City for an offensive operation," says Lieut. Colonel Paul Finken, the top U.S. advisor at Old MoD. "There's an added focus so as not to go in there and screw stuff...
...challenge could grow, as churches continue to spread out of the countryside and into the cities, where they draw from the ranks of the rapidly growing middle class. "If you look at Chinese history, all the rebellions that led to change of dynasty had some religious connotations," says Jean-Paul Wiest, an expert in the history of Christianity in China who teaches at Beijing's University of International Business and Economics. "The authorities don't like that...
Chinese authorities insist that they are not hostile to religion as long as it is practiced according to their rules. At officially sanctioned churches like St. Paul's in Nanjing, a near puritanical attention to order is maintained. There are rows of wooden pews, a pulpit from which the sermon is preached, even a signboard on which hymn numbers are posted. The pastor of St. Paul's, Kan Renping, 38, says his congregation has grown from a few hundred when he took over in 1994 to some 5,000 regular worshippers today. Many have to watch the proceedings on remote...