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...difference between Yunis and the more anonymous victims of tyranny is that he is alive and talking, while they are dead and silent. What he is saying, by implication is a lot: that you must not wage wars like the one that has developed in Iraq with troops who don't have enough translators to understand the local language and have no desire to listen to what's being said to them anyway; that the blind reliance on half-baked "intel" is a bad idea, especially when its backed by a moronically bullying attitude (co-director Tucker was, by happenstance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Iraqi Kafka | 3/23/2007 | See Source »

...MONEY $23 billion Amount of money sent home by Mexican migrant workers in 2006, mostly from the U.S. $9 Median hourly wage in 2004 of Mexican-born workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...Median hourly wage in 2006 of Mexican-born workers in the U.S. At that wage, it would have taken migrants 2.3 billion work hours to earn those remittances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Apr. 2, 2007 | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...directing as you did and writing your own movie, do you not get a little bit more control? - Anonymous You definitely get more control, but you know... it's still.... You do get more control, but boy, if you want to get paid a decent wage you got to get a PG-13 rating, everybody is not made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Questions with Chris Rock | 3/16/2007 | See Source »

Surprisingly, the new migrants have stabilized local labor markets. Not long ago, Irish builders were constricted by a lack of workers. Wages were spiraling to "ridiculous" levels, says John Dunne, the chief executive of Chambers Ireland, a business lobby group. A wage squeeze is one of the things unions feared most about the influx. Yet they too are benefitting from economic growth. Many of the migrants are signing up for unions because Poland has a long tradition of unionism. A British union, GMB, recently opened a branch in Southampton exclusively for migrant workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Positive Poles | 3/16/2007 | See Source »

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