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...mostly, the lush land that gave the villagers of Bori Budruk their wealth seems to have sown in them a rare equanimity. They see the cats not as parasites that need eradicating, but as part of the cherished natural order. "A human life is more important than that of a leopard," says Madhu Jadhav, whose 10-year-old niece Shradha survived being dragged from his porch by a leopard in August. "But the leopard does need to be saved." Most villagers agree with Wayal, the forest officer, that relocating the animals to a sanctuary, however long it takes...
Many Arab newsmen agree. They say the bitterness that the U.S. has sown with its policy toward Israel has intensified because of the civilian casualties in Afghanistan. Two weeks ago, Yasser Abu Hilalah charged in the Jordanian daily al-Rai that the Americans are ignoring war crimes committed by the Northern Alliance. "The U.S. has lost the propaganda war," Abu Hilalah concluded...
Whether or not these professors are assigning moral blame to the U.S. for the terrorist acts, they are saying, essentially, that we are reaping what we have sown...
...seeds for a recovery, perhaps in early 2002, are being sown fast. Stock prices usually rise well in advance of any such turn. That's probably too much to hope for this week as the stock market reopens. Those industries clearly hurt by the attacks will get a tough ride--airlines, hotels, media, insurance and financial firms. General Electric and Ford on Friday warned of lower profits because of fallout from the terror attacks. Amid the early tumult, few investors will want to buy. That leaves sellers in charge of the market trend, at least for a little while...
...word this week is that the economy will be lying very still for at least a few more quarters. In an interview published Monday, super-economist Milton Friedman predicted a recession followed by a Fed-sown snap-back: "With the very unusual Federal Reserve policy of successive interest rates cuts...the key problem once the recession ends in 2002 will be how to control inflation," Friedman was quoted as telling Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera." And Manpower Inc. released a quarterly employment survey finding U.S. employers likely to keep hiring in the deep freeze through the fourth quarter...