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...parliament and editorials in Beirut dailies have echoed the rising sentiment that Lebanon will find it difficult to bury its past and build a democratic future as long as Palestinian refugees remain in the country. "We refuse any implantation," Information Minister Ghazi Aridi declared in December. "This is a basic Lebanese national issue on which we cannot make any compromise...
...course can be tough going," says Curran, "but it changes them." In Jamaica cops who returned from the classes immediately began reforming the prisons, allowing inmates basic rights, like making phone calls. In El Salvador graduates began segregating youthful offenders from adults in jail. In other countries cops have incorporated the course's techniques into their training programs. A recent survey of the first crop of graduates concluded that the course had been "a watershed in their own lives...
...learned a lot of lessons from the course," says Curran, "but the basic one is that all cops want to have their jobs mean something." Usually something good, it turns...
Kreme's rise is evidence that not every sector is taking a beating. Companies like Alcoa and RJR Tobacco, which make or sell basic stuff, such as oil, aluminum, electricity--and, yes, cigarettes--are whipping the tech sector. Oh, did we mention that they earn a profit? How old-fashioned...
...emissions. Bankruptcy laws. Drilling in Alaska. And much more to come. Remember when Ralph Nader retailed the conceit that there was no difference between Gore and Bush, between the corrupted Democratic apparat and the corrupted Republican cabal? Maybe so. But the Red nation and the Blue nation do have basic differences with one another, and their different views of the world (of the distribution of money and the role of government, above all) are about to collide, this time not just in campaign rhetoric, as before, but in the real life of the nation, in real policy changes with real...