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Execs Earn More Despite Lower Salaries
A number of top corporate executives have opted for smaller salaries and some for no salary at all. The spotlight for this practice recently fell on William Clay Ford, chairman and chief executive officer of the Ford Motor Co. For the year 2002, he received no salary at all. At first blush, one is tempted…
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Arizona Border Posses Tied to White Extremists, ADL Asserts
In secret missions with military code names like Operation Thunderbird and Operation Falcon, ordinary Americans in the Southwest are donning camouflage uniforms, grabbing rifles, motion sensors and global positioning systems and tramping — or swooping in Skyhawks — through the Arizona desert in search of illegal migrants. The scenario is laid out in a new…
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Arrests Hit Israeli Muslim Group
TEL AVIV — Israeli authorities are working to outlaw the Islamic Movement, a fast-growing organization with tens of thousands of followers in Israel’s Arab community, mainly in the Galilee. The head of the Islamic Movement, Sheik Ra’ad Salah, was taken into police custody for questioning this week and court proceedings were under way for remanding…
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Born in 1945 in Baghdad, raised in Israel and a New York resident since 1975, Zigi Ben-Haim perhaps has his geographical history to thank for his talent at piecing together disparate elements and arriving at visually integrated three-dimensional sculptures. Opening May 18, “Journey With Me” brings some 13 sculptures — made mainly from stainless steel,…
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New Front Sets Sights On Toppling Iran Regime
A budding coalition of conservative hawks, Jewish organizations and Iranian monarchists is pressing the White House to step up American efforts to bring about regime change in Iran. For now, President Bush’s official stance is to encourage the Iranian people to push the mullah regime aside themselves, but observers believe that the policy is not…
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Palestinians, Israelis To Release Joint Peace Initiatives
While the world’s attention is focused on President Bush’s “road map” to peace, high-level groups of Israeli and Palestinian activists are crafting a brace of independent initiatives, several of which are due to be published soon. The initiatives, which spell out the nature of a final agreement in greater detail than the road map, are…
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THE LADIES LAUGH IT UP
Comedians Judy Gold, Jennifer Kirson and Karen Bergreen share their shtick and then share the stories behind their shtick in “Funny Girls.” Eldridge Street Project, 12 Eldridge St.; May 21, 6 p.m.; $5. (212-966-4782 or www.eldridgestreet.org)
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Settlements Top the Agenda As Bush, Sharon Meet in D.C.
JERUSALEM — The issue of Jewish settlements in the territories is the main obstacle awaiting Prime Minister Sharon when he meets with President Bush at the White House next Tuesday, according to informed sources here. Israel views Sharon’s White House visit, his first since October, as “crucial” to continued progress toward peace with the Palestinians,…
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Egyptian Activist Sees Opening for Democratic Reform
The American victory in Iraq is offering a unique opportunity to promote and spread democracy in the Middle East, according to the leading Egyptian human-rights activist. “Objectionable as the war may have been, the area has one fewer dictator. So there is a true opportunity to establish new institutions, new practices and new values, including…
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Lag B’Omer A Day for Joy, in Ladino: For the 33rd day of the omer, the 50-day period between the second day of Passover and Shavuot, the Ladino Players present an evening of Sephardic song and dance from Sevilla to Salonika — and folk tales, including several about that dear wise fool Djoha, the trickster….
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Groups Aim To Torpedo President’s Judge Pick
WASHINGTON — With congressional battles heating up over President Bush’s judicial nominees, two major Jewish organizations known for their liberal views have weighed in against the latest controversial Bush candidate, Alabama state Attorney General Bill Pryor. Pryor was nominated last month to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. The two groups, the National…
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