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...endorsing a particular candidate in the '08 election? -Haren Para, New York CityNo, but I like Hillary. I think she was already our President once. [Laughs...
...There are particular demands to a star's job - basically, to be photographed looking great while pretending to be other people - but it's not exactly coal-mining in West Virginia. So some of them give back to the world that gave them so much; Clooney, whom I'd call the exemplary Hollywood star, has been especially generous in lending his aura to well-chosen issues and charities. The top actors also appear in films that are, in their subject matter and their underdog status in the commercial movie universe, their own worthy causes. That's what brought Reese...
...Middle East. And the three major religions, Christianity, Islam and Judaism came to Ethiopia much earlier than much of Europe. So the Middle Eastern influence has historically been huge. And in view of the fact that much of the Middle East is currently in turmoil, the Gulf in particular, with all sorts of terrorist activities, we are susceptible to that influence too. But we are in the middle of Africa, and the challenges to democracy, poverty and development are central to our survival. This is a country of almost 80 million now, diverse cultures and language...
Despite such experiments, Japanese firms may find it hard to restore the glory days. That's because today 1 in 3 Japanese workers is part-time; younger employees in particular tend to value mobility over job security. Indeed, during Koyama's Saturday-night drinking session, employee Eri Shimoda confides that his co-workers "feel like family." Yet most of those who attend the party say that, warm and fuzzy sentiment aside, they plan to leave within a few years. "Work is just work," says one of them. No amount of free sake, it seems, can convince today's young salarymen...
...them to move faster. Iraqis tell Time, however, that it doesn't really matter if al-Maliki stays or leaves. As long as the current cast of dubious and discredited characters continues to dominate Iraqi politics, reconciliation is not going to happen. None of the likely replacements have shown particular inclination, much less ability, to rise above petty politics. "Some days, I think our problems are so big that we need a parliament full of Nelson Mandelas to solve our problems," says Iyad Jamaluddin, a legislator in former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's multiethnic Iraqi National List bloc...