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...private pension scheme, but she's not venturing near the stock market, calling it "too risky." Others are more resolute. In 2002, French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citro?n introduced a private scheme for some employees. The fund only began investing in October, so it has managed to avoid some hard stock-market hits. But European workers must be hoping that the new schemes take note of what is happening in the U.K., and learn some timely lessons...
...craggy mountains along the Turkey-Iraq border. To contain them, Turkey is planning ahead in other ways, a senior Turkish official said: the military has won U.S. approval to establish 17 refugee camps - 10 of them on Iraqi soil - as soon as war starts. Ankara wants to avoid a repeat of 1991, when a flood of 450,000 Kurdish refugees into Turkey was joined by armed insurgents who went on to reignite a civil war. Turkish-controlled camps within Iraq would help prevent that from happening. In the meantime, the Turks have stepped up their presence in the eastern part...
...council cleared the replacement elections with the College administration in order to avoid the problems that plagued the October elections. In those elections for representatives, the administration did not allow council access to students’ Personal Identification Numbers. This posed a problem and delayed the elections because the online voting system the council had developed required that students log in with their PINs before casting ballots...
...Mitznah, leader of the Labor Party, is stubbornly refusing. It's easy to see why; Labor activists see rejoining Sharon in government as the kiss of death for the traditional party of peace, because such coalitions typically agree to avoid taking positions in the areas that most sharply divide their members - and in the case of Labor and Likud, those differences run to the fundamentals of what is required for peace with the Palestinians. Mitznah took over party leadership from former defense minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer precisely because Labor had lost its independent identity while serving as the junior partner...
...Still, despite the Bush administration's support for Sharon and its willingness to accommodate his political needs - Washington refrained, for example, from releasing its "road map" for peace before the Israeli election specifically in order to avoid putting pressure on Sharon - the wider U.S. interests in the Middle East and beyond inevitably put Washington into conflict with Sharon's political base, even if not necessarily with the prime minister himself. The U.S. has, for example, insisted that Israel refrain from expelling Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from the occupied territories - a demand popular among Likud supporters, and even more so among...