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...impotent anger, people walking into harm's way and the sniper-like picking off of supporting players - all the dumbest tropes of horror movies, without the robust scares a good thrill-fest delivers. It's a sorry enough spectacle to make admirers of The Sixth Sense wonder if they didn't overrate that movie, and the director's whole oeuvre? Is Shyamalan a sham...
...recent incidents of xenophobia in South Africa not only reveal the brutality of some criminals, they also show the government's difficulties in fighting poverty. Although South Africa's economy has been growing constantly, people in the townships - especially migrant workers from Zimbabwe - do not really benefit. I wonder whether the attacks will impact on South Africa's staging of the 2010 World Cup. Adrian Lobe, STUTTGART, GERMANY...
...improving labor conditions. "If factories are getting monitored on average 25 times a year, that's every two weeks you have to check your records and talk to workers," says Michael Kobori, head of supply chain social and environmental sustainability at U.S. garment manufacturer Levi Strauss. "It's no wonder management is so occupied with these monitors that they have no time to make improvements...
...that Auret Van Heerden of the Washington-based Fair Labor Association calls "something of a dirty little secret." One manufacturer with 15 factories in seven countries told Van Heerden that he had to deal with more than 250 audits a year, each costing an average of $1,600. Small wonder many factory managers see multinationals' codes of conduct as a plot to blunt their competitive edge. In a pre-audit pep talk to workers one Chinese factory manager railed: "Social responsibility is in essence trade barriers, uplifting our costs and slashing our competitiveness...
...progress. That of Iraq has hardly advanced beyond a blueprint - or, rather, many of them. In the Middle East, neither the democracy which the Bush team was supposed to promote, nor the Arab-Israeli peace such democracy was supposed to engender, is much in evidence. It's no wonder - most Europeans will think - that Bush wants to shift the subject to combatting HIV/AIDS and malaria...