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...become a more immediate threat to their way of life. Sharon's disengagement plan calls for the evacuation of all Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and four in the West Bank, including Sa-Nur. But in many of the settlements scheduled to be evacuated, residents are preparing to wage last stands of their own. Nowhere else is there greater potential for an Israeli-on-Israeli confrontation than in Sa-Nur. Israeli security forces fear that this lonely outpost of 38 families could be the nastiest flash point in the evacuation campaign. Dagan says he expects thousands of supporters...
...best-seller list even though it's mostly a collection of previously published columns. Despite Coulter's indifference to the online world--she doesn't blog, and until recently she had little direct role in anncoulter.com--she has a staggering presence in cyberspace, where pro- and anti-Coulter forces wage unending battle. Her "official chat" site, which Coulter never visits, draws 1,000 posts a day. A recent documentary, Is It True What They Say About Ann?--co-directed by a friend of Coulter's, journalist Elinor Burkett--has played at film festivals and won some favorable notices...
...most of the wealth. Comprising only 10% of the nation's 45 million people, whites (directly or through equity positions) control 69% of the companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange; 27% are in foreign hands, and just 4% are controlled by blacks. The imbalance is also pronounced among wage earners. Some 100,000 white South Africans earn more than $60,000 annually; just 5,000 blacks do. While there is some good news--according to the South African Advertising and Research Foundation, almost 300,000 blacks became middle-income earners (between $13,000 and $23,000 annually) over...
Edwards, who himself grew up in a poverty-stricken household, called on Congress and state governments to increase the minimum wage, which he called a “national disgrace...
...teams of six to 15 people. Each team would be responsible for large sections of the car, and its members would have the latitude to reach a consensus on how to divide up and rotate job assignments. Most important, production workers would receive a salary instead of an hourly wage as they do now, and the pay would be directly tied to performance...