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...other cinematic gemstone opening around the country this weekend is the new buddy-buddy Eddie Murphy action comedy, I Spy. This time, however, instead of being paired with Nick Nolte or Robert DeNiro, Owen Wilson fills the other shoe in the buddy equation...
Former politicians are supposed to retire to lucrative consulting jobs in white-shoe offices. Rudy Giuliani has got the lucrative part down, but he has agreed to reimmerse himself in the same urban mayhem he faced and tamed as mayor of New York City. Giuliani and his consulting firm have been hired by Mexico City to help combat its alarming incidence of murders, kidnappings and drug trafficking. For the effort, the firm will be paid $4.3 million, to be coughed up by wealthy private citizens. Because of the magnitude of the problems confronting the city of 20 million, the expense...
...explosion that killed nearly 200, Ramlah Yasin sat on the floor of an office at a shuttered factory on the outskirts of Jakarta wondering if she, too, should be counted as a victim. Yasin, 30, worked for 11 years as a cloth cutter on the assembly lines of a shoe manufacturer, but a month ago her employer was forced to close after U.S. athletic gear giant Nike stopped ordering sneakers. Yasin has been looking for work, but now she has begun to despair. "Many orders from America could be moved away from Indonesia" she says, in the wake...
...Footwear Association, tells a similar story. He expects exports of footwear to reach only $1.5 billion this year, down from $2.2 billion in 1996. The number of members in his association has dropped by more than half over the last 10 years; over the last six years, employment in shoe factories has fallen in half to 250,000. "If we look at our competitiveness, especially on price, we're not in a good position," he laments...
...Union leaders say increased labor activism isn't the reason Indonesia's clothing and shoe sectors are fading. Dita Indah Sari, chairperson of the Front Nasional Perjuangan Buruh Indonesia union says that a poor global economy, excess capacity in industries like textiles, and security concerns are causing companies to scale back. "If the government can't solve the political problems, don't look for a social group to blame," she says...