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...first political issue I remember being interested in had to do with civil rights—it was the murder of Emmett Till, who was my age, when he was murdered in 1954. We were both 14, and I was so outraged by that. So my earliest political drama was over civil rights and the outrageous mistreatment of black people...
...With one of Sarkozy's earliest reforms having granted over $22 billion in income tax cuts (thereby deepening France's $62 billion in France's 2008 budget deficit), he was forced to admit state "coffers are empty," and can't finance aid to consumers. Sarkozy proposed that unions and companies negotiate an effective junking of the current workweek in exchange for rises in long-frozen salaries, and for employees to be able to trade accumulated days off for cash. He also recommended permitting Sunday trading at double pay for workers, and measures to ease rent inflation - a combination of initiatives...
...supposedly biggest shopping day of the year falls on the earliest possible date, November 23, giving Americans 32 days before Christmas to find the perfect gift. But with the specter of a possible looming recession and a lack of must-have items in stores, fewer Americans are likely to leave the couch and hit the mall with the same kind of alacrity and determination they have in years past. "Black Friday is going to be a gray Friday," says Marshal Cohen, chief retail analyst at the NPD Group, a market research firm in Port Washington, New York...
Child-development experts warn that parents are expecting too much too soon. Maryanne Wolf, head of Tufts University's Center for Reading and Language Research, describes how recent brain-imaging data show that children aren't ready to read until around age 5 at the earliest. "To hasten that process not only makes no sense socially or emotionally, it makes no sense physiologically," she says. Identifying a flash card at an early age isn't reading, Wolf notes. It's what researchers call paired-associate learning. That may sound impressive, but, she says, "a pigeon...
...Lynn University’s Donald E. Ross tops the charts with earnings over $5.7 million in the 2005-2006 year. Some presidents, on the other hand, decline to take any salary at all. Boston College President William P. Leahy has done just that since at least 1996, the earliest year for which data is provided by The Chronicle. His salary has been donated to religious organizations. Derek C. Bok also declined pay when he served as interim president of Harvard last year. In the past, Bok has spoken out against rising presidential salaries. “Lavish compensation...