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...soldiers don't mix with the local population, and can't even communicate - most of the soldiers speak only Turkish, and the locals just Kurdish and Arabic. "We don't like them, the Turkish government is the most brutal in the world," said one resident, Fadhil Tomar. "After the war, if they don't leave the peshmerga will come and kick them out." At that, a pickup sped up with a couple of Turkish soldiers and a Kurdish-Turkish translator. We were asked to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the Turks Are — and Aren't — in Kurdistan | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

...part of the world cannot change until they want it to. Each and every woman who is being discriminated against has to stop adjusting to her present state by adopting a fatalistic attitude toward it. All those who are placed in similar situations have to act as one. RITU TOMAR New Delhi

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1995 | 10/16/1995 | See Source »

...JULIUS TOMAR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 30, 1973 | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

...Tomar Industries of Haiti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 30, 1973 | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

...wage required by Haitian law. Many of the jobs they find are in small assembly plants, which contract with foreign firms for the cheap labor of Haitian workers. In one plant, 3.7 million Rawlings baseballs are stitched together every year for export to the U.S. Explains Owner Jules Tomar: "Baseball sewing is a nonexistent art in the U.S." But even these jobs are few and far between; at least one-third of the Haitian population is unemployed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Haiti: New Island in the Sun | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

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