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...Strike Between 2000 and 2002, South Korea lost 111 days for every 1,000 workers due to strikes, according to the Bank of Korea. By contrast, the U.S. lost 56, Britain 32, Japan and Sweden one each...
...interesting items of note: Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller appeared together to provide a glimpse of the up-coming "Sin City" movie starring Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke and Jessica Alba. The filmmakers stressed how closely they stuck to Miller's original comic series, resulting in some impressive super-high contrast black and white art direction and some wincingly cornball "hardboiled" dialogue - the hallmarks of Miller's late work. Monsters of manga TOKYOPOP have plans to start a more adult-oriented imprint sometime in the near future. They have also begun soliciting gay comics creators for a series of shonen...
From day one, this has been the Clinton convention. It paints a stark contrast to 2000, when then-Vice President Al Gore ’69 ran from Clinton, even picking a vice presidential candidate with Clinton-bashing credentials earned during the impeachment proceedings. Bill owned the hall Monday night, delivering by far the best speech of the convention, and perhaps one of the best in a career of distinguished speeches...
...stomach turn. The income gap here is not any wider than that of many developed countries, including the United States. But when there’s no middle class in a country of only 4 million people in an area the size of the state of Delaware, the contrast between rich and poor is appalling. Just 10 minutes outside Beirut in the Palestinian camps or the Shiite suburbs or 90 minutes outside of Beirut to either the rural north or the south, you realize why Lebanon is still a third-world country. One university researcher here estimates that 90 percent...
...knew how to avoid being another caged animal in a superficial circus: He was the circus, jumping from topic to topic and mood to mood so swiftly that the audience had no choice but to come along for the ride. This was unabashed politics, genuine and forceful, and the contrast with the night’s other speakers was impossible to ignore...