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...speech Tuesday to French mayors to reiterate his determination to pursue the contested reforms, yet vowed "There will be neither winners nor losers." That wasn't the kind of active engagement many pundits expected in the current showdown with unions. Even his conservative backers and resisting union leaders seemed anxious for Sarkozy to become personally involved in resolving the conflict. But it's still unclear when that will happen. With Sarkozy's personal involvement as arbiter viewed as decisive in brokering a solution, his rather predictable comments Tuesday suggest he's willing to risk the strikes continuing into next week...
...really, really anxious when gay marriage came up—whether it would be on the popular vote ballot” said Michelle C. Kellaway ’10, Community Chair of the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance. “After that battle was won, I breathed a sigh of relief, and I’m not worried about it anymore...
...Wachowski Brothers to the makers of “30 Days of Night.” As a result of the strike, his firm may be forced to dramatically reassess its strategy in the coming months. While in support of the guild’s goals, Alpert is anxious for the strike to resolve itself. “Ultimately I sympathize with the writers, but I want to work, I want to make a living,” Alpert said. “When there’s a work stoppage in the entertainment industry, it affects every aspect...
Guatemala goes to the polls on Sunday, haunted by a violent and contested past and anxious over an increasingly violent present. The legacy of the country's 36-year-civil war is never far from contemporary politics, and the front-runner in the presidential runoff - retired General Perez Molina, whose right-wing Patriotic Party has a very slight lead over left-leaning businessman Alvaro Colom in some opinion polls - has been the subject of allegations in a new book on the 1998 assassination of Guatemalan human rights crusader Bishop Juan Gerardi. Gerardi was bludgeoned to death in the parish house...
...resembling the dance for “Walk Like an Egyptian.” One girl looks around with uncertainty to make sure she’s not the only one. Indeed, if they weren’t all such gifted musicians, the whole spectacle of interwoven lines of anxious-looking, stiff-limbed undergraduates would risk resembling a scene from a Christopher Guest movie.“We have to rehearse differently with the singers,” explains stage director Catherine E. Powell ’08. “They have to think more about actually producing...