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Jesse Jackson and Bill Clinton have never much liked each other, and the divide is widening. Indeed, at the exact moment last Friday when Clinton was cementing the support of centrist Democrats in Washington, Jackson was in a New York City synagogue eulogizing a labor leader whose life's work...
But the same downsizing that has sharply pared union membership has also created new receptiveness for union organizers among surviving employees who find themselves overworked and stressed out. Labor productivity, which measures the hourly output of workers, grew a robust 3.2% last year, the best showing since 1964, while paychecks...
Mapping such widening diversity is a goal of Harvard University's Pluralism Project, run by religion professor Diana Eck. Students have located, among other things, seven Buddhist temples in Salt Lake City, two Sikh gurdwaras in Phoenix, Arizona, a Taoist temple in Denver, a Jain center in Blairstown, New Jersey...
The dangers this internationalism presents are evident: not for nothing did the Tower of Babel collapse. As national borders fall, tribal alliances, and new manmade divisions, rise up, and the world learns every day terrible new meanings of the word Balkanization. And while some places are wired for international transmission...
The dispute is heating up. Hans Blix, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is expected to tell the U.N. this week that North Korea's violation of international nuclear safeguards is "continuing and widening." In addition to blocking inspections of two secret sites to which the IAEA demanded access...