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...Jacobs said the SEIU plans on continuing their negotiations with AllliedBarton “as long as progress is being made...
...story of India today is one of great expectations, as soaring economic growth lifts tens of millions of people out of poverty and swells the ranks of the middle class. But India's progress has also brought sorrow to many farmers and rural workers, who still make up two-thirds of the country's workforce. The income disparity in the new India is massive: there are now 36 billionaires in India-and some 800 million people living on less than $2 a day. In the most desperate pockets of rural India, a confluence of factors, from poor rainfall...
Still, the U.S. may at last be seeing signs of progress. Compared with the streets last fall, residents tell me, a relative calm has returned to Mansour. Fewer bodies are being found every day, and it is no longer routine to see gunmen shouldering rocket launchers in the street. One reason the violence has subsided, of course, is that many of the neighborhoods that saw the bloodiest sectarian cleansing are no longer mixed...
...Even if he is averse to withdrawal on Congress’s terms, he should do so on his own. Although Bush claims that withdrawing from Iraq would prove disastrous to the future of the country and the region, recent events, as well as the relatively flat trajectory of progress, have shown that American involvement isn’t improving the situation. A case in point is the 12-foot wall on which the United States military began construction in mid-April. According to original plans, it would stretch three miles through Baghdad, separating Sunni and Shiite areas. The barrier...
Ultimately, arguments about hypersensitivity and race-baiting seem like nothing more than attempts to stifle productive debate or rational progress in changing people’s attitudes. Discussion should not be off-limits because it holds the potential to make some people uncomfortable, not only with the people around them, but with themselves...