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...Khateeb is a humanitarian worker based in Baghdad, where she works for the non-profit group Iraqi AlAmal Association. A former program coordinator for the U.N. Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), she rallied women to participate in Iraq's first elections and now uses her twelve years of technology experience helping local women learn e-business software...
...becoming an aid worker Iraq civil society has no background before 2003. It was all controlled by government, a totalitarian regime. Iraqis couldn't do any humanitarian work - government does everything. You're not allowed to question anything. If you question it, either you're persecuted or you're an outlaw. After 2003 July, I joined UNIFEM and NGOs started to form in Iraq, women NGOs. They were quite active in thinking of the future, trying to make something. After 2005, it was really difficult, [there were] a lot of humanitarian violations. Networking was completely something...
...last two weeks had taken their toll. Senator Barack Obama had drawn closer to Clinton in the polls, and a number of Clinton's longtime allies were calling on her to quit the race. "We've all been a little worried, honestly," said Sherry Pickens, 49, a postal worker from Pataskala, Ohio who has volunteered to work phone banks for Clinton the last few weeks. "Around the campaign office, it really felt like we hit a low point last week...
...face with a pen in hand. Stronger unions would force companies to pay more, but that money has to come from somewhere. Cut profit, and shareholders take the hit. Raise prices, and consumers foot the bill. Cut costs, and companies may be forced to fire the very workers that unions are supposed to protect. The United Auto Workers union, for example, has crippled Detroit automakers with high labor costs. Now, workers are feeling the pain. Chrysler LLC plans to lay off 12,000 workers this year after cutting 13,000 jobs last year. Americans are wary of unions for good...
...same weight as that of the senior citizen concerned about losing her drug benefits to an overly ambitious tax plan, the concerned father who doesn’t want his daughter to think that the only way to become president is to marry one, and the recently unemployed steel worker who just can’t bring himself to vote for such a frigid you-know-what. Far from elegant (or even reasonable), the process by which we make our most important political choices is a sticky web of policy, identity, and a strong thirst for likeable leadership; our inability...