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...against the proposed cuts. Eastern Germany, with its 18.5% unemployment rate, is especially incensed about Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's plan to replace income-indexed benefits with flat-rate payments for the long-term unemployed. Schröder's Social Democratic Party (SPD) is bracing for a major setback when state elections are held next month in Brandenburg, Saxony and Saarland. The SPD is faring so badly in Brandenburg, where it currently rules in a coalition government, that the Party of Democratic Socialism - the successor to the former East German communists - has overtaken it in opinion polls...
...toughest problem of Kevin Hatamiya's brief elementary school career doesn't involve arithmetic. It's his hair-trigger emotions. Whenever life throws the 7-year-old second-grader a setback, his short fuse ignites, and he yells at the top of his voice. His mother Michele thought manners lessons might teach him to cope better, so she paid $50 for three one-hour classes. "I'd like him to control himself more," says Michele, "not just with his temper but in lots of other ways...
...Give Peace a Chance Your notebook item "a truce on Terror" [May 3] stated that the cease-fire between the Pakistani military and pro?al-Qaeda fighters "could be a severe setback for the Bush Administration, which has been leaning on Pakistan to carry out a clean sweep of al-Qaeda and the Taliban" from the Waziristan area of Pakistan. It also stated that "the truce raises doubts about the resolve of the Pakistanis to root out al-Qaeda fugitives." But violence only begets violence. In the Iraqi town of Fallujah, Americans were fighting the so-called liberated Iraqis, whereas...
Your notebook item "A Truce On Terror" [May 3] stated that the cease-fire between the Pakistani military and pro--al-Qaeda fighters "could be a severe setback for the Bush Administration, which has been leaning on Pakistan to carry out a clean sweep of al-Qaeda and the Taliban from the tribal territory." It also stated that "the truce raises doubts about the resolve of the Pakistanis to root out al-Qaeda fugitives from the tribal areas." But violence only begets violence. In the Iraqi town of Fallujah, Americans were fighting the so-called liberated Iraqis, whereas...
...Senate this week is considering legislation to strengthen the language of the Solomon Amendment, potentially dealing a setback to gay rights advocates who are challenging the 1996 statute...