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...reluctant to take on the duty, let alone the cost, of intervening unilaterally. Should the United Nations assume the chore? In the wake of more than 30,000 Kurdish deaths and perhaps as many as 140,000 killed in Bangladesh's April 30 storm, many reformers pin their hopes on the organization. "Only the U.N. has the power and resources to mobilize the international community, but too often it has been hamstrung by a lack of clear leadership and coordination," argues Lynda Chalker, the British Minister for Overseas Development. Britain hopes to win agreement on the need...
...ideal. Of course, they neglect the fact that Japanese children watch more TV than American kids and that Japanese TV is often more inane than the American fare. Why engage in complex soul-searching to find the roots of the breakdown in American education when you can pin it on the TV bogeyman...
...inlaid ruby belt buckle and a jet-black Western shirt embroidered with two crimson roses, Ken Wickham, 63, is the very image of a high-rolling gambler. He stands 6 ft. 6 in. in his 10-gallon hat that is festooned with red feathers and a Hopi rain-dance pin for good luck. Wickham soon lets you know he's no ordinary man: he says he's an evangelist minister who flew half a dozen missions with the 101st Airborne Division in World War II and played a sergeant alongside war hero Audie Murphy in the film To Hell...
...same day in 1989 that American Airlines gave flight attendant Sherri Cappello her 25-year pin, they fired her for being 11 lbs. overweight. Last week Cappello, now the vice president of American's flight-attendants union, watched with satisfaction as the airline was forced to lift the limits that had cost her a job. After lawsuits by the union and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, American agreed to revise its standards. Under the settlement, the company's 1959 weight requirements will be relaxed, and employees will be able to weigh more as they age. Violators will be required...
Organizers also passed out pins attached to colored ribbons that read, "I wear this pin as a symbol of my commitment to exercizing my rights responsibly and with respect for other...