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...Belgium - follow the company's announcement of profits of $1.55 billion in the third quarter of last year. This has angered the Belgian unions, which are taking a stand against what they see as an affront to the country's beer-making tradition. "This is the ugly face of capitalism," says Roger Van Vlasselaer, who heads the Flemish Brabant section of the ABVV-FGTB, Belgium's main union. "AB InBev are just thinking of their bottom line for shareholders, regardless of the social cost. There is no reason at all to fire people...
Counter compared his case to several others, including that of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. this past summer. He called the Gates case “a tragic reflection of the kind of racial profiling and hostility that African-Americans, especially men, face every...
...face of sparsely occupied residence halls and regulations that discourage some social activities, many House tutors and administrators are trying to promote a spirit of community during the College’s first-ever January Term, filling the void with activities in which students can bond over food, film, and friends...
...Chinese economy expanded 8.7% last year, the National Bureau of Statistics announced on Thursday, an impressive figure that will offer some relief to Beijing policymakers who declared that maintaining stable growth was critical to ensuring social stability in the face of the global economic downturn. Thanks to expansive stimulus spending and a flood of cheap credit, the Chinese government was able to ensure growth, giving it clout at home and abroad as other major world economies still grapple with slow recoveries. "Those measures quickly produced results and stopped the remarkable decline in our economic growth, and China thus became...
...victim's family. The case remained officially closed until December, and on Jan. 5 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced it had sent documents requesting the extradition of Patterson from his home in Sunnyvale, Calif. If the U.S. government cooperates, they say, Patterson will be returned to Seoul to face a new trial - and possibly more severe charges...