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...followers needed more than just religion to improve their lives - and that the way to attract the destitute was the provide services - Booth provided meals, clothing and other assistance to his early converts. He was famous for saying, "Nobody ever got saved while they had a toothache." The quasi-military name "Salvation Army" was given to the charitable church in 1878 - Booth had been known as its "general" even before that - and the first U.S. chapter opened around...
What would the great men of old Communist China think of the ones leading today's quasi-capitalist boom? "If Mao were alive, he'd get rid of them all," the Dalai Lama said to a gathering of his followers today. The line got a big laugh and signaled a more forceful tone in the Tibetan spiritual leader's approach to China...
...rituals are more futile than the "housecleaning" of Mexico's police forces. So deep, broad and brazen is cop corruption south of the border that removing it makes eradicating rats from landfills look easy. Mexico stages quasi-annual purges of officers high and low - last year it was 284 federal police commanders - and yet every year the nation seems to find itself with an even more criminal constabulary. This year's scandals, however, are especially appalling...
...others against the U.S. and the East Europeans. Remember that the rule is "Don't rile the Bear," and so whenever the Bear growls, he is sure to find a receptive audience west of Warsaw and Prague. You would have thought Russia's march through Georgia and its quasi-annexation of Abkhazia and South Ossetia would have instilled a healthy sense of ursophobia in Berlin and points west. You might also think that Russian pressure tactics against the newer members of the E.U. and NATO would sharpen doubts about Moscow's pledges to be a "good citizen...
...workforce, or more than 2.5 million jobs. GM alone employs more than 100,000 workers, the same number of autoworkers that have been laid off so far this year. And that's not to mention the hit the Federal Government would take if GM dumps its pension, insured by quasi-governmental agency the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp.; with nearly 1 million participants, it is the largest private defined-benefit pension plan in the U.S. Some experts estimate that that hit alone could cost taxpayers more than $100 billion, with another $100 billion in lost tax revenues and $10 billion...