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...workplace are already well under way. Barbara Cavuto, who works in one of Italy's relatively few temporary employment agencies, says business has tripled since her company opened in 1998, a year after such operations were legalized. Older people who come in looking for work tend to resent the arrangement. "Most young people accept it though," she says. "They're much more elastic." The unions, largely led by older members, are eventually going to have to battle for the hearts and minds of this elastic youth...
...Blarcum says people tell her that her son will someday resent not growing up in a nuclear family, but she values their current living arrangement. All day, the boys dash between floors, playing and eating together in whichever kitchen offers the best meal. Both mothers provide discipline, direction and love...
...Lanka, or at least threaten to. The Tigers have well-documented links to terror groups in the Middle East?many veterans were trained by Yasser Arafat's p.l.o.?and they operate an armament delivery service for other militants around the world. According to Indian intelligence, who deeply resent Prabhakaran and the Tigers for the 1991 assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, a Tiger vessel has been used to transport weapons from al-Qaeda to the Abu Sayyaf group in the Philippines and to Turkey to supply rebels in Chechnya. "They have the best terrorist shipping network in the world," says Gunaratna...
...seven years on the couch was enough for Richter. "I didn't want to resent the show," he says. "If I stayed longer, I would have become like a kid who didn't leave home when he should have. I'd start thinking, 'My parents suck,' when the truth is really, 'No, you should have gotten a job.'" He has one now, starring in the funniest new sitcom of the spring, Andy Richter Controls the Universe (Fox, Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m. E.T.), which not only shows that Richter has not lost his mind but also invites you inside his head...
...only the voters who are disenchanted. The mainstream right is rent by personal rivalries among 50-somethings who resent the way that Chirac, running in his fourth presidential election, is blocking their ascent. Jospin's coalition is creaking at the seams as voters desert the communists and the greens squabble. The sense of déja vu is intensified by the next two candidates. Former Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement, third in the polls, draws support from a backward-looking array of old socialists and nationalists. The leader of the extreme right-wing National Front, Jean-Marie...