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...exile in Portugal or Mozambique during Indonesia's occupation, have aggravated the situation by failing to connect with the majority of their compatriots. Senior government officials live lives of relative luxury, in stark contrast to the lot of the vast majority of East Timorese. (Because Dili is a small town, it's not uncommon to see such officials dining in trendy Portuguese cafés situated near the poor and homeless squatting in tents.) Portuguese is the official language of the government, which means that most East Timorese, who speak Indonesian or the local language Tetum, cannot understand, or participate...
Sometimes a town moves only as fast as its escalators. From the subway station at Sugamo, a neighborhood in northwestern Tokyo's Toshima ward, riders ascend single file to street level at the speed of treacle on a winter day - a pace that allows for feeble eyes to adjust to the rising step and for a firm grip on both red rubber handrails. Here in "Grannies' Harajuku" (an ironic reference to a nearby district famous for its nubile trendsetters and fashion pranksters), slow is the operative word. Heads in the crowd are gray and silver, not black, pink...
Inside an empty former electronics factory in the Dutch town of Eindhoven, hundreds of Philips employees sit around endless rows of tables. Split into small groups, staffers of the Amsterdam-based firm--maker of everything from lightbulbs and toothbrushes to TVs and X-ray machines--get to work. "We're not always an easy company to deal with," says Theo van Deursen, boss of Philips' lighting division. From a platform in the center of the vast space--still latticed with girders and pipes, its walls temporarily lined with giant TV screens--Van Deursen lays down a challenge. "We have...
...lifting behind it, Philips needs to address its underperforming share price: the stock has slid 20% on the Amsterdam bourse since July. Citigroup analysts are bullish, however, calling Philips "a growth company masquerading as a restructuring story." Whatever happens, Philips has faced tougher times. Just a short drive across town from the Eindhoven plant, you can visit the company's first factory, where beginning in 1891 it manufactured incandescent lightbulbs for ships and hotels. Back then, the company needed to churn out 500 each day to turn a profit. At the start, it could manage only 400. In case...
...coming campaign, the party of Ronald Reagan will shift its priorities on key domestic issues ranging from global warming to the cheap importation of prescription drugs. Despite the pressures of a national campaign, the candidate will remain open to the public and press, continuing the regular town halls and reporter gabfests, often in traditionally Democratic bastions. And the campaign will attempt to make inroads with independent voters in states that the electoral map has long counted as beyond Republican reach...