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Article discusses the break in Labor unions during the recent July 2005 AFL-CIO convention. Two of the largest unions, the Service Employees' International Union (SEIU) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) refused to attend the biannual conclave and announced the formation of a new federation named Change-to-win (CTW). Essay examines the roles of key players in this drama and the tendency for rapid growth when splits in labor occur. Author contends that success of the CTW is not secure as antipathy toward labor surpasses sympathy and the sway of Republicanism further confounds labor organization. In conclusion, author recommends holding reconciliatory talks between AFL-CIO and CTW aimed at achieving a reunion before mutual recriminations become too venomous. This strategy would best serve labor when the political tide shifts.

The author tries to put into perspective the vast increase of China's economy over the past few years. Though the growth is remarkable considering the country's political climate, the author reminds readers that its GDP is still "one seventh that of the United States" and its per capita GDP is "less than one fortieth that of the United States." The article goes on to explain America's growing trade deficit and its knee-jerk reaction to blame it on China. However, it is suggested that the shift to cheaper labor markets is natural and that the Chinese own only .7 percent of the total stock in treasury bonds; therefore the threat is blown out of proportion. It is concluded that "assuming China's economic growth continues, the world's challenge is to make room for it."

В статье дана авторская концепция персонифицированного рассмотрения отечественной истории на примере академика А. Д. Сахарова, с использованием материалов Общественного архива А. Д. Сахарова. Интересным является утверждение автора о том, что КГБ и ЦК КПСС признавали за обществом право на оппозиционное осмысление происходящих в стране событий, поскольку было бы ошибкой думать, что такое "разрешенное" мышление могло серьезно угрожать политическому строю страны. Позиция инакомыслящих не была чужда общественному мнению страны, в противном случае они не пользовались бы авторитетом "идеологического противника" бюрократии.The author taking, as example the fate of academician A. D. Sakhorov offers his concept of personified approach to the issues of home history. Attracting documents from Sakhorov's archive the author affirms that both KSS and CC of CPSU recognized the right of society for opposite thinking as it could not threaten political system of the country.

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Zhanna Kormina's article is devoted to an analysis of folklore songs that revolve around the theme of a soldier's return from the Great Patriotic War. Kormina explores the differences between the popular perceptions of war and the official discourse. The author argues that as a result of the war, a large segment of the Soviet population internalized aspects of national identity. The key factor was the distinctive language with which the state spoke to, engaged, and mobilized the population for the war effort. A peculiar feature of this new language was the rendition of abstract patriotic slogans into images and terms taken from the sphere of everyday life, such as those of motherhood and spousal faithfulness. The author demonstrates how the common imagery was used in officially sponsored lyrics and popular ballads to the effect of telling different stories about the war.

Germany rapidly implemented the pension policy unity and on 1 January 1992 put East German citizens on the same level as West German citizens. The author compares the two pension systems and explains the basic problems of the pension transition. All attempts by the federal pension law to compensate pension loss of politically persecuted persons by the SED regime have failed. The situation of SED victims is a moral flaw of the unification. Furthermore, the expansion pushed through by judges regarding the basis for claims of "intelligence pensions", which led to unexpected household burdens in the former GDR states, is rather ridiculous. The author states that besides the financial burden, jurisprudence of the past 15 years has led to a moral burden of the united Germany because of pension supplement issues.

[The Koori Court Division of the Magistrates' Court in Victoria has been in operation since 2002. This article seeks to assess its development and operation, with the perspective that the Division has the potential to ad- dress problems Aboriginal people face in the criminal justice system and society generally. The author takes the view, however, that to fulfil this po- tential, the Division's development and operation must function in a way that makes some effort to adjust the power imbalance between the Abo- riginal and non-Aboriginal community, The author sees a critical ap- proach to an evaluation of the Division as crucial, considering the background of treatment Aboriginal people have received at the hands of the criminal justice system and Australian society as a whole, and the negative impact of previous government policies.]

The current literature on attachment and immigration is reviewed and attachment theory is used to illuminate immigrants' responses during the stages of premigration, transit, settlement, and adjustment/adaptation. The author argues that immigrants are more likely than nonimmigrants
to have an insecure attachment representation, and considers both causes and effects of immigration from an attachment theory perspective. It is suggested that long-term implications of immigration experience may include increased vulnerability to attachment trauma, and that understanding
social support and clinical aspects of immigrants' needs will benefit from the application of attachment theory. The author considers the usefulness of applying attachment theory to the experiences of nonimmigrant groups including expatriate employees, members of the armed services, government
employees stationed abroad and even foreign students are discussed. Several attachment-based research focuses to examine attachment among immigrants are proposed.

The Challenger and Columbia similarities in management decision making with regard to the ill-fated shuttle mission failures bear scrutiny. Key aspects of both tragedies include senior-level managers ignoring the advice from experts within the NASA organization leading to tragedy. NASA is typical of modern organizations in the tendency to relegate worker knowledge below that of managers and executives. The Columbia Accident Investigation Board has determined that the organizational/management culture was a key factor in the demise of the Columbia. The author argues that culture, although an important contributor to the tragedy, is inadequate for assessing the problem. Differences in knowledge between executives, managers, and the workers are key to unlocking the central problem of the NASA organization. The author uses and develops the theoretical approach that delves into multiple knowledges in organizations that is known as the "knowledge analytic."

Dialogue in the lives of the first, second, and third generation of the Kindertransport is the focus of this essay, in which the author first highlights background factors in understanding the "narrative history" as distinct from the "factual history" of the Kindertransport. This is followed by an exploration of insights into the role that dialogue in various forms, including its absence, may have played in the pre-separation and post-separation phases of the Kindertransportees' lives. The author looks at a few general features in the dialogue of Kindertransportees with each other and then at some central themes in intergenerational dialogue between first, second, and third generations of the Kindertransport. Ultimately the text suggests that what can be learned from such dialogues might be of use to research and to those involved in the care of separated children today.

This article explores the legacy and current presence of racism in Brazil, particularly their unique expression in the juxtaposition of the miscegenation ideology of nonracism with the living legacy of Lombrosian criminology. The author proposes the Sorcery of Color as a metaphor for the Brazilian standard of race relations, which transforms a perverse system of racial domination into a pretense of antiracist ideals and establishes what the author describes as the category of virtual whiteness, a fulcrum of identity intrinsically intermeshed with issues of gender and patriarchy. The groundings of Afrocentric thought can be found in the writings and actions of African Brazilian intellectuals of the 20th century, and its most articulated expression is the thesis of Kilombismo, developed by Abdias do Nascimento in the context of his work in Pan-African affairs in the 1970s and 1980s.

Автор статьи фокусируется на адаптации российской диаспоры в Китае в 1920 1950-х годах. Автор подчеркивает, что история российских колоний эмигрантов, расположенных в различных частях Китая в Маньчжурии, Шанхайском и Северном Китае, имела свои особенности, определенные конкретными политическими, экономичными и культурными условиями тех регионов, так же как некоторых внутренних факторов типа количества беженцев и компактности их проживания. ; The author of the article "The Russian Community in China" Elena Aurilene focuses on adaptation of Russian diaspora in China in 1920-1950s. The author underlines that the history of Russian emigrant colonies, located in different parts of China in Manchuria, Shanghai and Northern China, had its own peculiarities, defined by specific political, economical and cultural conditions of those regions as well as some inner factors such as quantity of refugees and compactness of their settling.

Starting from the older meaning of the word "queer" as referring to counterfeit money, the article looks at queer strategies of naming and self-naming and how they relate to issues of identity, authenticity, and socio-political validity. The author argues against the current modes of identity-based sexual politics and calls for an 'ecologization' that will insist on the ultimate namelessness of queer subjectivities. ; Starting from the older meaning of the word "queer" as referring to counterfeit money, the article looks at queer strategies of naming and self-naming and how they relate to issues of identity, authenticity, and socio-political validity. The author argues against the current modes of identity-based sexual politics and calls for an 'ecologization' that will insist on the ultimate namelessness of queer subjectivities. ; Rafał Majka