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...We’ve identified a problem. What was sort of anecdotal in the Florida election has been shown to be much more pervasive,” said Angelo Ancheta, director of legal and advocacy programs for Civil Rights Project and a lecturer of law. “The basic finding is that where you live greatly affects the value of your vote...
...practices guerrilla pricing. Sullivan comparison-shops at the chains and tracks the smaller-ticket items they advertise, like sealant or tape measures. He prices the same merchandise about 10% to 15% higher and, like them, earns a higher margin on items that aren't so price sensitive, such as basic tool kits and paint accessories. The strategy lures customers to his store (as it does to the chains), but Sullivan wins additional business through service. His sales force helps people find the right socket wrench fast, holds their hands through a plumbing project and pays a home visit if necessary...
...places like Bosnia, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Afghanistan and Angola. "As I write," Rieff notes, "there are 27 major armed conflicts taking place in the world; 1.2 billion people are living on less than one dollar a day; 2.4 billion people have no access to basic sanitation; and 854 million adults, 543 million of them women, are illiterate." Rieff expresses his admiration for the humanitarians--Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)--and other organizations, but he is ultimately skeptical that even their most heroic efforts can do much to change...
...army's Chief of Staff in five to 10 years. Born on a kibbutz in northern Israel, Tibon lives in Tel Aviv with his wife and two daughters. His is the difficult life of a soldier, often away from his family for weeks at a time, because his "basic belief is that Israel is in the middle of a 100-year war." Tibon prosecutes that war from Tel Haras base, high on Mount Gerizim. From this bastion, Tibon can pick out a handful of Palestinian cars far below on the otherwise empty streets of Nablus. Israeli tanks are the only...
Like Abbott and Costello's "Who's on first?" routine, the coalition agreement unveiled last week by German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Green partner Joschka Fischer seems confused about basic issues, and destined to end where it began. But economists aren't laughing, because the E.U.'s biggest economy is also among its sickest: 3.94 million unemployed workers are draining government coffers, the GDP will grow only .5-.75% this year and the budget deficit will bust the E.U.'s 3% limit. Business leaders blame high taxes, expensive welfare programs and rigid labor laws, but the government seems...