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...free love. The 2006 rallying point is a new law, backed by Villepin, to reduce France's chronic and debilitating youth unemployment, which has rarely fallen below 20% since 1983 and currently stands at 22% - and at more than 40% in the poorer neighbor-hoods that exploded in bitter rioting last fall. His plan: a "first employment contract" that allows employers to fire workers under the age of 26 within two years of their hiring, without cause and with no obligation to shell out France's hefty severance payments. Making it easier to get rid of unsatisfactory workers, the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advance and Retreat | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

...attack that killed 22 members of his family and about 5,000 other residents of Halabjja in 1988. Though he lives without a pension despite his years as a PUK peshmerga commando, and though he rebuilt his home and his shop without help from the government, he isn't bitter. "The important thing is that we are Kurds being governed by Kurds," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble in Kurdistan | 3/17/2006 | See Source »

...also to be praised for her acting range, playing both the titular role in a recitation of the poem “Sarah Cynthia Silvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out” as an utterly psychotic little girl, and the role of old, bitter, jaded Nellie in “No Soliciting.” Possibly the darkest and most disturbing scene was “The Best Daddy,” where Lisa (Masha O. Godina ’08) tries to figure out whether her 13th birthday present from her father (Daniel J. Rinehart...

Author: By Marin J.D. Orlosky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Silverstein Delights and Disturbs | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

...smoking, sex-fiend self. 4) “Jigga What”—Jay-Z. No seriously… Jigga what? 5) “Am I Missing”—Dashboard Confessional. Some girl really messed with this dude’s head. Slightly bitter...

Author: By Rachel E. Whitaker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard on Shuffle | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...What's more, India's Hindu right wing, which rose to prominence by stoking sectarian hatred and held power from 1997 to 2004 under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is in disarray. The party has yet to recover from its election defeat two years ago and the round of bitter infighting that followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Behind the India Bombs? | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

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