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...downtown to confront a rally by the racist National Front, which was banned, so they turned their Molotov cocktails on the police. Slowly they were pushed back toward his neighborhood, where, he says, "some of them took advantage of a situation that was out of control." But even this pillar of the community is suspicious of the white power structure. He says he called the police at 11:15 p.m. when he first saw the BMW dealership under attack. Though a major police station is only a few hundred meters away, the cops and fire brigade didn't show...
Along with everything else, Job's friends eventually turn on him. By contrast, the group of fellow believers with whom the Guthries have met every Sunday night for seven years has been an unfailing pillar of strength. They are a high-powered crowd--music executives, a state senator, a former Tennessee deputy education commissioner--who originally saw Hope's illness as a medical challenge to be overcome. As she declined, however, they recast her fate as a call to radical faith. "With Hope, the rubber met the road," says member Wayne Buchanan. "At a time like this, you either believe...
...These days Erdogan chooses his words carefully. He no longer talks of minarets and bayonets but of "making moral values a pillar of modern administration."; The Islamic rhetoric of seven years ago is gone. He presents demands, like permission for women to wear Islamic headscarves at universities, not as threats to the secular state but as basic rights. Even so, a Turkish establishment that includes the army still suspects his moderation is just fa?ade. Other critics say he's too provincial to reform Turkey and lead it into the E.U. His reply, still to be tested, is that...
Such backward logic didn't resonate with regulators or the financial-services industry not too long ago--before 401(k) plans had become the pillar of many people's retirement security. But Congress and Wall Street long have abided by a simple principle: follow the money. With so much nesting in 401(k) plans, two new initiatives aim to commingle plan administration with sorely needed advice. This is groundbreaking stuff. I'm talking not about generic investment education, like the flyers you get in your statement, but personal, account- and fund-specific suggestions...
...Such backward logic didn't resonate with regulators or the financial-services industry not too long ago--before 401(k) plans had become the pillar of many people's retirement security. But Congress and Wall Street long have abided by a simple principle: follow the money. With so much nesting in 401(k) plans, two new initiatives aim to commingle plan administration with sorely needed advice. This is groundbreaking stuff. I'm talking not about generic investment education, like the flyers you get in your statement, but personal, account- and fund-specific suggestions...