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Creative use of offshore outsourcing, says Debashish Sinha of Gartner Research, offers benefits that outweigh the direct loss of jobs. In an economy that has shed 2 million jobs over two years, he contends, the 200,000 that have moved overseas are less significant than the potential for cost savings and strategic growth. But he concedes that "when you're a laid-off employee who can't find a job, that's hard to understand...
...certainly not Mr. Abbas himself. Indeed, that's an integral part of the message Abbas will bring to the White House on Friday: That unless Washington puts pressure on Israel to grant more concessions on prisoner-releases and other issues, Abbas's government will collapse. And Arafat will not shed any tears; he'll simply appoint a new prime minister...
There are some signs of recovery, especially in the service sector, which accounts for 80% of U.S. employment. Although the economy has shed 394,000 jobs since the end of January, the S&P 500 index is up nearly 8.5% so far this year, and the lowest interest rates since 1958 are keeping the housing market strong. But by Straszheim's bearish reckoning, full-year growth for 2003 may amount to little more than 2%. That could pose a problem not just for workers but also for President Bush as he gears up for the 2004 election. If things...
...mercifully warm refuge from the icebound expanse was the 117-meter, scientific-cum-tourist ship Akademik Ioffe, with its hot breakfasts and convivial bar. In a place where 15-story glaciers regularly shed apartment-size chunks into the ocean, I was glad of this sanctuary. I gingerly asked Kathy, the expedition's kayaking instructor, how long I would survive in the near-freezing water if I fell in without wearing a wet suit. "About six minutes or so," she said...
...sings another embarrassingly lame song (Rowling, who has learned so much from Tolkien, should have learned to stay away from poetry). But Rowling does so much right that it's churlish to dwell on her minor missteps. (O.K., one more: Dobby still talks like Jar Jar Binks.) She has shed the clumsy devices--the impostors and the secret identities--that marred the shape of some of the earlier books. Her prose, always a serviceable, unshowy instrument, is stronger and more confident, and she has become a virtuoso plotter, a master at snappy pacing, able to stun and surprise at will...