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...ultra-Orthodox movement in Judaism known as Hasidism is alien and vaguely unsettling to some Gentiles and even to many modernized Jews. Hasidic men, bearded, black-hatted and clad in severe dark suits, take to their streets to dance in spiritual celebration on joyous holy days. The strictly observant women dress to conceal their elbows and knees and cover their shorn hair with wigs. Members of tightly knit, Yiddish-speaking Hasidic communities, under the virtually absolute sway of a grand rabbi, preserve a way of life that began long ago in Eastern Europe...
...model of a modern Marxist enterprise. Yugoslavia's clangorous Red Banner auto plant is located in a sprawling industrial park some 85 miles south of Belgrade. Inside a vast assembly hall, 16,000 workers turn out about 220,000 cars a year, including 55,000 copies of the small, ultra-cheap Yugo, the only Communist-built car sold in the U.S. Amid the factory hubbub, Radojko Suljagic, a department manager, extols the 78-member workers' council that ostensibly controls Red Banner. The elective body, of which Suljagic is president, not only chooses factory management but also sets such basic policies...
...career managing a smorgasbord of affiliates, including a steel company, a pipemaker, a shipping-container manufacturer and Hyundai Motor's service business. When Chung broadcast his intention to turn Hyundai into a Top 5 automaker, few took him seriously. Hyundai, like many family-controlled Korean companies, was ultra-hierarchical and slow to change. Division chiefs ran their operations as personal fiefdoms. "When a problem occurred, each division would blame other divisions," says Lee Hyun Soon, a senior executive in research and development...
...opportunities for Bush to reach across party lines and truly become a “uniter, not a divider.” He can start by abandoning his stillborn plan to privatize Social Security and pledging to nominate judges that are acceptable to more than a sliver of ultra-conservative Americans. So far, however, Bush has only succeeded in disproving the oft-repeated belief of his presidential opponent last year. During the election, Senator John Kerry portrayed a Bush presidency as offering “four more years of the same.” If the first four months...
...Rusch knows too well what that feels like. "You're just in this state of slow deterioration, and you're doing everything you can to buy time," she says. "You can't recover until you stop." Even then, say exercise physiologists, the body doesn't always bounce back completely. Ultra-athletes may be more susceptible to developing arthritis and fractures when they are older, and their muscles may not recover as quickly from tears and bruises. Still, says Rusch, "a journey like that is an amazing thing." And for her, well worth the physical toll of pushing her body...