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organization based in Tokyo.Japan only reluctantly accepted Indochinese refugees in the first place. ''So far we have accepted only 7,000 refugees from Vietnam, despite geographical and cultural closeness  it's shameful,'' says Tadamasa Fukiura, director general of AAR. Japan has allowed 1,254 Cambodians, such as Sophana and Tiakkhena, to settle here since 1979.As in Sophana's case, most found it difficult to adjust to a conformist society that does not gracefully tolerate difference. Sophana now describes himself as an ''ordinary salaryman'' who has made Japan his home, but says that despite his Japanese education and his 16 years here, he still feels only ''half'' Japanese.But Professor Okuda says Japanese are becoming more receptive to their Asian neighbors. In the part of Tokyo called Ikebukuro, where Okuda focuses his research, ''Asians have endeavored to live carefully and to adjust to community rules,'' he says.This striving, Okuda says, has relieved and impressed landlords and others, who have sometimes d
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 Today surveyed more than 4,000 of them in New York. It found that their average income is $45,000  too much to qualify for government health assistance but not enough to pay the $521 monthly premium for an individual standard HMO plan. Nearly 47 percent said they went without health insurance for some portion of the past two years.Ms. Horowitz launched Working Today in 1995 and set up a way to tie health insurance to the type of work people do rather than to an employer. (The organization recently added nanny to the list of categories.) Because they are now pooled together, members can get coverage for as little as $286 a month. And if they switch to a job with benefits and later return to freelancing, it's easy to requalify.Our model is one of portability and mobility. We are the vehicle by which they don't ever lose their insurance, Horowitz says. In some ways, it resembles a union model, but it serves a population that isn't allowed to unionize because it lacks a relationship with a single employer. Working T
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 fast, their investment performance will look poor. So they will lose clients and perhaps their jobs. Those managing mutual funds worry shareholders will jump to hot funds.Thus the technology fad feeds on itself. But such manias end.Parks recalls forecasting the burst of the 1980s bubble in the Tokyo stock market. It did so in 1990, with stock prices bouncing back some in the past year.Now he's betting the Nasdaq bubble will burst in the next few months, risking a small chunk of his personal investment money on that assumption.A stock market bubble burst doesn't necessarily mean the whole economy will similarly pop. With Federal Reserve help, the US economy kept on going after the 1987 stock market crash. The Tokyo bust, though, was a factor in Japan's decadelong economic doldrums.You can have a gigantic bubble in an otherwise healthy economy, notes Parks.Parks is bothered by the extraordinary distance between prices of stocks in the Old Economy and in the New Economy. For example, stock of Federated Department S
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 who reflect almost all the ideological and social bases of Kuwait. Kuwait's Islamist opposition won 20 seats (40 percent) independent candidates won 13 seats (26 percent) and progovernment forces won 17 seats (34 percent). Moreover, many members of parliament have multiple loyalties, tribal and sectarian. For example, 24 members come from Kuwait's major tribes, the Mutair, the Awazim, and the Ajman. The parliament represents both Shia and Sunni.In spite of the limitations of the Kuwaiti democratic experiment, the elections showed a fairness unprecedented in the region. The lack of government interference in the political process will certainly have implications for neighboring countries. This is both a promise and a peril. For the people of the Gulf, Kuwait is a promise of further democratization in the region. Surrounding governments, on the other hand, see Kuwait's democracy as a threat to their internal stability. It could inspire further demands for powersharing in the Gulf region, and few regional government
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