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...years. Financing those benefits has created a debt whose annual interest approaches France's total annual income-tax revenues. Against this backdrop, Villepin has managed to drive onto the streets not just youth who are locked out of the labor market, but also civil-servant trade unions, which habitually block reform on the pretext of resistance against what they sloppily label "ultraliberalism." Such unholy alliances have characterized France's numerous civil wars. In 1358, the jacqueries (peasant uprisings), which gave birth to the modern state, united peasants against the nobility. The nobility, in turn, revolted to protect their privileges against...
FILED SUIT. BARRY BONDS, 41, slugger for the San Francisco Giants; against the authors and publishers of Game of Shadows, which claims Bonds took steroids for at least five seasons; in San Francisco. Instead of suing for libel, his lawyers seek to block authors Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams from profiting, arguing they "illegally obtained" the grand-jury testimony on which the book relies. Judge James Warren said Bonds was unlikely to prevail and denied his lawyers' request for a temporary restraining order on the book's profits...
...companies are suing to reverse them, arguing that the law amounts to a restriction of fuel economy-a federal prerogative. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, rather than supporting the states' efforts, has indicated it may try to block them, a move that strikes Pavley as particularly wrong-headed. "This is off-the-shelf technology that automakers are already using in Europe," she says. Meanwhile, she?s already moved on to a new front: her latest bill would require power plants, oil refineries and factories to measure, and eventually cap, their greenhouse-gas emissions...
...year old foreign soldier to reach his home, school or family. The Israeli government has justified its 40-year brutal occupation of Palestinians in the name of security and national preservation. Nevertheless, it seems that the sophisticated security apparatus the Israeli Defense Forces have constructed serves to block reality, rather than bombers...
...Bishop of Hong Kong, Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, becomes Cardinal as the Vatican tries to walk a delicate path toward re-establishing diplomatic relations with Beijing. The Pope had invited four Chinese bishops to the Synod of Bishops in October, only to see the government block their departure at the last minute. Many in Rome?s office of the Secretary of State have pushed for a more flexible approach to the Chinese, who until now only recognize the so-called "Patriotic Church" made up of Catholics not obedient to Rome. China also insists on the Vatican cutting ties with Taiwan...