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...extramarital affairs. But France's dirty little secret is that industrial action has long helped perpetuate the status quo rather than overturn it. Now the art of protest is undergoing a revolution (another French tradition) as a small group of social activists uses creativity, humor and media savvy to draw the kind of attention it once took millions of marchers to muster. And here's the really radical thing: France's youthful demonstrators aren't just winning support for their various causes - they're challenging the very social and economic pact that has defined the country for the past...
Former President Mohammad Khatami stated that his greatest economic failure during his tenure was not reducing the massive subsidies the Iranian government spends to keep gas prices low. Every year, his government had to draw millions of dollars from Iran's special "rainy day" oil revenue reserve fund in order to pay out the subsidies. By 2003, the leaders today associated with the ongoing Green Movement opposition - Khatami, Mehdi Karroubi and Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani - all supported rationing gasoline in order to reduce domestic consumption and government expenditure...
...praise for their accomplishments. For Senator Ted Kennedy, who died on Aug. 25 at age 77, there is no shortage in that regard. He boasts the most productive Senate career in memory, a public life that shaped five decades of national politics, and a loving family who will now draw together to mourn their loving patriarch...
...they continue to refuse this request, the British people will draw their own conclusions.' MOHAMMED SHAFIQ, of the U.K.-based Ramadhan Foundation, a Muslim youth group...
...year, and now Harvard and Princeton are [both] No. 1. People are going to write about that. But they were very close before, and now they're tied. That's not really a big change. Schools are pretty stable, and the top schools have the resources to continue to draw the best students and graduate them at a high rate year after year. It's hard to move big institutions to a great degree...