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...violent occupation, does nothing to advance the peace process. It is worth remembering that Hamas’ rockets were wildly inefficient, homemade devices incapable of posing a real threat to the world’s fourth-largest military power. While this is not a defense of many of their poor political choices, it further highlights the disproportion of Israel’s so-called “targeted” response...
...member likened the protestors’ struggle to a fortune cookie she’d found on the ground outside the Harvard Science Center, which read, “[W]hen spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.” An inspiring rallying call for these poor, disenfranchised Harvard students. Their main man Barack would be proud...
...scope of the crackdown has raised objections from many of Obama's labor- and civil-rights supporters, who are demanding a more targeted enforcement effort focused on employers that provide poor working conditions or substandard wages. "These seemingly arbitrary audits represent a version of the flawed thinking that went into the Bush Administration's work-site raids," wrote Service Employees International Union president Andy Stern in a Dec. 11 letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. "Forcing the dismissal of such a tiny percentage of the hardworking men and women who work long days mopping floors, sewing our clothes...
...Malaysia and Thailand engage in partisan politics that has little to do with how to shield these export-led economies from a slowdown in the West. Indeed, Asian governance is failing in democracy's most basic undertaking: to represent the will of the people. Back when the region was poor and ravaged by war, Asia's citizens made an unspoken pact with their leaders, that economic progress could predate political reform. But, today, most Asians are fed and clothed, and a middle class flourishes. Where, then, is the accountability, transparency and justice Asians crave? Here are four areas in which...
...helps too, Norton says, if while you're picking your investors' pockets you can also convince yourself that you're justified in doing so. Maybe you grew up poor; maybe you've been cheated yourself. Or maybe, as with Madoff, the phony dividends you're paying are initially benefiting charitable foundations. You're actually doing the groups a lot of good - at least until you bankrupt them...