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...wish ... ," a woman in her 20s cried as she confided that what she wished for most of all was to see her mother, who had worked abroad for the past two decades to support her children. Another recruit said he had just quit a seminary to support his sister because she was pregnant and her husband had fled. He explained: "Only this company gave me a break." In a country where there is so little opportunity that some 7 million Filipinos have gone overseas to work, call centers provide a crucial lifeline...
...Abusing the News Your article "Arabian Knights" told of plans by al-Jazeera, the Arabic broadcast network, to create an English-language sister channel based in Qatar [May 30]. I'll grant that al-Jazeera has crossed the boundaries of ethical journalism by showing some of the most gruesome acts of terrorism. Unlike cnn or Fox News, however, al-Jazeera attempts to report both sides of any story on world affairs. The analysis presented by cnn and Fox News is shallow and biased. For example, these networks tell more about how Hamas' terror attacks affect Israelis and less about...
...influential Irish lawyer. One of Jack's jobs is to deliver expense money to William Butler Yeats, then staying at the attorney's (would you believe?) 30-room Manhattan apartment. Jack has sticky fingers; he usually lightens the cash envelope, and when his boss dies, Morrison and his sister-in-law steal a Yeats manuscript from the apartment, bypassing a stack of paintings by Renoir. Says Emily Morrison: "Anything Irish got to be better." Her son Jimmy has no such flair for literary appreciation. He finds easier pickings as a corrupt union officer, and fathers Owney...
...that "we believe by letting the outside world know what is in 'them thar hills' that interest in this corner of God's Country will be born." Today the paper goes to 650 subscribers, including, according to Homemaking Editor Marie Stohr, "a woman that lives in Canada someplace, the sister of the lady that works at the caf?...
...Some shrewd Icelanders showed their capitalistic acumen in another realm. Many of them rented their homes to news organizations desperate for accommodations. Arni Arnason, marketing director for Iceland Waters, his wife and two children moved out of their apartment a block from the press center and into his sister-in-law's home. "The women did all the business calculations and decided there would be a market for our house," said Arnason, who is renting out their four-bedroom flat for $3,000 for five nights. One woman telephoned a U.S. embassy official and offered her sprawling suburban home...