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...latest spate of accusations of insensitivity has demanded much attention," Johnson says. "But in the long run, although the charges are unfair, I believe it will make us more professional at the department...
...Conservatives plainly were not handed a mandate to forge ahead with a program that has plunged Britain into its longest, deepest recession since World War II. Rather, the Tories can only conclude that they remain more trusted than Labour to curb 9.4% unemployment, high interest rates and the spate of business bankruptcies and closures. Ultimately, Labour's attempts to convince voters that it had shed its socialist spots failed. The party's renunciation of its old high-taxing, free-spending habits were offset by promises to shore up education, health care and other domestic programs, which Britain's largest accounting...
...spate of reports last week traced the powerful riptides that continue to buffet the economy. The Commerce Department said the gross domestic product grew at a microscopic annual rate of 0.4% in the fourth quarter last year, only half as much as the previous estimate. The job picture darkened as new unemployment filings rose by an unexpectedly high 15,000 claims, to 447,000 in mid-March. And orders for big-ticket durable goods ranging from turbines to battleships fell 0.1% in February, after rising a sprightly 2.5% in January. There has been good news as well: purchases of existing...
...These complaints have dovetailed with free-market economics to inspire a spate of calls to end federal support for public TV altogether. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, released a report in January arguing that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting should be privatized. The growth of new cable channels offering similar fare, the report argued, "makes today's public-broadcasting system unnecessary and wasteful...
Rather than acknowledging these human rights abuses, many Americans have chosen to commemorate the internment's 50th anniversary with a hatred and cynicism similar to that which motivated the internment itself. Judging from the recent nationwide spate of anti-Japanese and anti-Asian hate crimes, racism remains as insidious today as it was 50 years...