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...believe, for example, that generational differences, while fraught with tensions, can benefit a workplace. They advise employers not to give up too soon on their most experienced workers. "Instead of spending time designing that cherrywood retirement plaque," they write, "companies should get creative and find ways to harness Traditionalists' vast capabilities...
...have declared war on the West. The Hindus wield tridents and sticks and talk of protecting the Hindu nation while the latter carry assault rifles and promote an Islamic state. Both feel their holy sites have been besmirched by outsiders. Both may be minorities within their faiths - the vast majority of Hindus are satisfied with their rituals and customs and the great land that nourishes them - but have supporters in positions of power. Yet, since 1992, the Hindu fundamentalists have kept a low profile and India has been calm...
...China's undeveloped legal system has forced peasants to employ some pretty extraordinary means when seeking justice. In January, for example, hundreds of villagers in Henan and Guangdong provinces overturned cars and attacked officials accused of corruption. The anger is strongest in a vast countryside where hundreds of millions have been bypassed by economic development and face increasingly hard lives. (Premier Zhu Rongji acknowledged last week that "incomes for farmers in some major grain producing areas ... are decreasing...
...dealers, a comfort to the locals and, in the end, probably whistling in the wind. "They aim for visibility," says Christian Séchaud, of the Lausanne police, and to scare dealers off the streets, albeit temporarily. Arrest, he says, is not an option because the cocaine dealers - the vast majority of them in this part of town are West African asylum seekers - are "untouchable." For a start, drug use is not illegal in Switzerland, and possession of .2 grams or less of cocaine doesn't warrant arrest. Also, Swiss law treats seriously its obligations not to repatriate asylum seekers...
...constraints endemic to poor, conservative cultures, women pilot 747s, run major corporations and become lawyers, judges and politicians. It is an overwhelmingly Muslim land (98 percent) where minorities still become cabinet ministers, supreme court justices and Nobel Prize winners. All this does not take away from the vast discrimination and injustice that exists, but the picture is far more complex than CNN reports would have you believe. The important reality is that for every militant or militant sympathizer, there are 20 Pakistanis who welcome foreigners, who embrace Americans and who, in many cases, aspire to someday live the American dream...