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...idea of a certain number of foreigners allowed in, a fixed number each year." To guard against a return of the Albanian boat people who were sent back two years ago, the Italian navy is patrolling the Adriatic. The powerful opposition group, the Northern League, calls unabashedly for zero immigration. "There should be an end to all this false pity," says Gianfranco Salmoiraghi, a League official in Milan. "Immigrants are caught in a form of slavery, exploited by unscrupulous employers to accept lower wages, thus depriving Italians of work...
...second hand revolving around the face of a clock. They start slowly with the haunting soundtrack building wonder into the crisp imagery. Bright colors and dark backgrounds rule the screen until the characters steal the spotlight from them. But each scene, like the second hand returning to zero, ends with Swinton's friendly stare...
...torn plastic satchel of clothes and a new pair of shoes that he hoped would bring him luck in America. In the course of selling everything else he had ever accumulated, Pierre discovered that at age 38, his net worth amounted to slightly less than $23. Now it is zero; he sleeps on the floor of friends' houses and begs or steals food to survive...
...Lautenberg was dealing in such zero-sum calculus on behalf of his constituents, he would have exacted some financial concessions for his state in exchange for a yes vote. Lautenberg, it seems, used a different sort of calculus, figuring that his political stock would fall more as the result of a yes vote than it would rise from bringing home the bacon, so to speak. In this case, defensive pandering won out over its offensive analog...
...compromise is the recognition that time is running out for South Africa's once mighty economy. Apartheid cost the country millions in lost investment. Since 1990, some 500,000 jobs have been wiped out by recession, drought and violence. With South Africa heading toward its fourth straight year of zero growth, the repair task will be that much harder...