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...plan to limit the shortfall to €1.2 billion this year under the reform is now in jeopardy. It has appealed the Marseilles ruling, but if the initial judgment is upheld, chances are high that more and more jobless will be heading to court - or forcing a government climb-down through protests like that of the performing-arts workers. That would effectively neuter any hope of tackling the deficit. "A rich nation can't brazenly economize at the expense of its poorest members, as though society owes them nothing," warns Charles Hoareau, a Marseilles union official who organized the court...
According to the report, private institutions were hit the hardest with financial aid obligations, which have become increasingly costly as the national unemployment rate continues to climb...
This story of a 1985 Andes mountain-climbing disaster comes courtesy of director Kevin MacDonald, whose film One Day in September won the Oscar for Best Documentary a few years ago. But in the vein of his last work, Touching the Void, is not a clear-cut documentary; the events it examines are real, but MacDonald uses re-enactments of the story’s events to supplement a narrated account from the disaster’s survivors. The nut of their crisis: halfway through a climb, one of the two team members falls and breaks several leg bones...
...Boston Red Sox took it upon itself, just days ago, to boot the Beanpot Baseball Tournament—and our very own Harvard baseball team—from Fenway Park. I’m so happy I could climb the Monstah...
...side are Taiwanese voters, like those in Yunlin, who are now drawn to Chen and his "Taiwan first" message. On the other are old-line supporters wary of pandering to independence-minded Taiwanese. At the same time, the KMT must make room for ambitious Young Turks anxious to climb the ranks, negotiate a new equilibrium within its Pan-Blue alliance and reverse a plunge in assets that forced the party, once the world's richest, to miss payroll for five days earlier this month. Many expect the KMT, facing so many loose ends, to unravel. "We're seeing it decline...