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Creating better opportunities for women is proving to be just as complicated as combating terrorism in post-Taliban Afghanistan. President George W. Bush said in his June commencement speech at West Point, “A thriving nation will respect the rights of women, because no society can prosper while denying opportunity to half of its citizens.” But America’s commitment to Afghan women is weak at best...
...that at Southwest. The top guy is in the room." After sometimes acrimonious talks with the mechanics union, Parker took both sides out to dinner. He insists, however, that the company must defend the flexibility over work rules and pay that has helped it prosper. "We cannot afford not to take a strike if a labor demand threatens Southwest...
...correct in its long-term goal to integrate non-English speakers into the United States, but bilingual education is not the way to do so. Rapid immersion, on the other hand, gives these students the exposure to English so necessary if one is to get by, let alone prosper, in the United States today...
...media is willfully distorting factual information in support of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, others are raising profound objections to a knee-jerk military solution to a universally-recognized problem. Only a few are looking at why such tyrants as Iraqi President Saddam Hussein emerge and seem to prosper in the world, and what factors turn villains (from our viewpoint) into heroes (from the viewpoint of many in the developing world...
...island is postcard gorgeous. The mineral glitter of its beaches cedes to vertiginous mountains and the misty mysteries of half-hidden valleys. "Most visitors are surprised by the unspoiled beauty of Flores," says Koro. "And the people here have realized tourism is our only hope if we are to prosper. They are learning what real service means...