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...Some readers thought the outsourcing of U.S. jobs overseas should begin at the top. "Corporate executives should ship their own jobs abroad," wrote a Vermonter. "The savings would be much greater than a mere computer programmer's salary." A Utah reader warned that "the big shots don't realize it, but their own jobs are in jeopardy and will be leaving soon." And a New Yorker saw a deficit-reduction bonanza: "Americans could save billions if we outsourced our Federal Government! Certainly there must be citizens of India who would be glad to act as our legislators for a fraction...
DIED. ABU ABBAS, 56, mastermind of the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro; of natural causes; in U.S. custody in Baghdad. In 1976 he founded the Palestine Liberation Front, whose members seized the boat, fatally shot American Leon Klinghoffer and pushed him, in his wheelchair, into the Mediterranean. Abbas was captured by U.S. special forces in Baghdad last April, nearly two decades after being convicted in absentia by an Italian court...
DIED. ABU ABBAS, 56, Palestinian terrorist leader who masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea, during which American Jewish tourist Leon Klinghoffer was shot and pushed overboard in his wheelchair; while in U.S. custody at a prison outside Baghdad. Abbas, whose real name was Mohammed Abbas, had lived in the Iraqi capital under government protection in recent years, but was captured by U.S. forces after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Abbas?who learned his guerrilla tactics while fighting alongside the Viet Cong in the late 1960s?came to epitomize...
...Bali, with an international creative team and an all-Indonesian cast and orchestra. A recent workshop performance at the Bali Purnati Center for the Arts, situated in a jungle ravine amid terraced paddy fields, showcased Wilson's stage legerdemain at work. Flimsy sets produced majestic effects: a great seagoing ship was created with a few artfully twisted bamboo culms; a parade of animals sprang to life from bits of cloth, paper and string. The birth of the title character was represented by winding and unwinding the mother from a series of gorgeous sarongs?a simple, graceful illusion that matched...
...Harvard ship sprang leaks here and there throughout the season. Sometimes the fissures were too numerous to fix at once. Now, the stopgaps appear firmly in place. The gauges check out. Every lug is lock-tight—especially in its own zone...