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...ruled that Rolf Danner, who lives in Finland, should receive the country's normal tax breaks although he pays into a German pension. The ruling is key for companies who want one scheme for all their E.U. employees. On The Waterfront The International Longshore and Warehouse Union went on strike, shutting down all 29 West Coast ports in the U.S. The strike halted $1 billion in revenues per day, hitting Asian Pacific economies especially hard as companies like Toyota and Nissan were forced to stop production or find other ways to ship products to North America. Foes Fall Into Tough...
...next wave of al-Qaeda attacks might look like. Investigators say the organizational methods used in these bombings - the first sustained effort by Islamic extremists to export terror to the West - is proving a useful guide to the future. "Because no one fully understood the origins of the initial strike on the World Trade Center in 1993, the Paris bombings were our first confrontation with Islamic terror," says one French justice official. "So this case is important historically, but it also educated us fast." What investigators learned is that the success of the G.I.A. in exporting to France its jihad...
...fully support the janitors in their strike and hope the contract can be settled soon with their demands...
Over a thousand building trade workers in Boston have honored the picket lines, often losing pay. The Teamsters are not making deliveries to any building where janitors are striking; construction crews stayed off affected construction sites, including a new building at Northeastern University. Such solidarity is crucial to the success of the strike...
...faculty photographers will be teaching upper-level classes this semester. Deborah Bright, who exhibits a series of outdoor photographs of stonewalls and wooded clearings, will be teaching a contemporary photography seminar. Joel Sternfeld’s images of the urban landscape of New York City will strike a nerve with anyone who has ever strolled through the city and been amazed by the beauty within the dull and dingy urban landscape. In Looking West on 29th Street on a September Evening (2000), it seems as though Monet painted a field of flowers beneath a milky skyline and gritty buildings...