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...fanatics in the world and always will be. A more grounded vision--less rhetorically satisfying but perhaps attainable--would be to drastically reduce the support that terrorists receive from the general population, for whom resentment of the U.S. and its friends becomes a reason to excuse those who translate ill will into violent rage...
...Ollie Galam, owner of Executive Clothiers, a men's store in Prospect Heights, Ill., today's hard times have triggered a reappraisal of his salespeople's pay formula. He is considering lowering typical base salaries from $40,000 to $35,000 and offering higher commissions. "We have to shift more of the risk to employees," Galam says. "The owner can't take all of it anymore...
Because sometimes it doesn't pay off--for employee or owner. In May, Robert Barton of Burr Ridge, Ill., took a $10,000 pay cut when he switched from his old job at an energy trade publication in Washington to a position as a manager at a business-intelligence outfit in Chicago, lured by the prospect of earning hefty commissions based on the business he helped bring in. "I saw the upside of this arrangement," he recalls. Soon enough, he saw the downside. On Sept. 14, the national day of mourning for the terror attacks, he was let go during...
Steve Feldman, a travel agent in Highland Park, Ill., certainly hopes that's not the case. His income, based primarily on commissions at the Far Horizons agency, is already down 25% this year. That's not enough, however, to make him trade his job for the security of one with a more dependable, flat salary. "Even though it's riskier," he says, "there's a greater possible reward." Like millions of other workers nowadays, Feldman, who specializes in organizing gambling junkets, might just have to wait a little longer to hit the jackpot...
...Laden, the U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia are the worst but not the only manifestation of U.S. ill will. Asked by CNN in 1997 whether their withdrawal would appease him, he said no. The holy war will not stop, he said, until the U.S. "desist[s] from aggressive intervention against Muslims in the whole world." Bin Laden counts as unacceptable the American military presence in other Arab states, including Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt. He is offended by continued U.S. sanctions against Iraq as well as Syria, Sudan, Libya and Iran. And he objects to America's substantial...