Word: fingering
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...plethora of long-term, short-term, temporary and limited work contracts that are at the heart of the current dispute. Russia in theory has a civil code that lays down workers' rights, but in practice you get hired the same way you get fired, at the snap of a finger. Précarité, the word that brings millions of young French people out into the streets, is the norm there. Forget about a pension big enough to retire on-you have 40 years to figure that out. Health care is more problematic, since getting sick puts...
...much as his political opponents try, it isn't easy to put a finger on Ollanta Humala, the frontrunner heading into Peru's presidential election this Sunday. On the stump, Humala, 43, a retired army lieutenant colonel,is a fiery leftist, telling crowds that he would nationalize strategic industries and veto the recently negotiated free-trade agreement with the U.S., all the while railing against what he calls the "neoliberal economic model...
Last June, Kelleher filed a counter-complaint against Garcia, in which he claimed that he was actually assaulted by Garcia, who, along with his friends, was blocking the crosswalk and flipped Kelleher the middle finger after he honked...
...writing in response to Lucy Caldwell’s comment, “Depressed? Like It, Love It, Live It,” printed on Mar. 20. I am impressed that, after only one and a half semesters as a college student, Ms. Caldwell feels that she has her finger on the pulse of Harvard culture, peer counseling, the history of psychiatry, and modern medicine. Regrettably, Ms. Caldwell is misinformed on each of these topics...
...issue of the storied Harvard Advocate came out early last week, sporting a fresh, leafy cover and a hell of revealing table of contents. The masthead is conveniently printed on the opposite page, and if you check the names through with your index finger, all but half a dozen contributors are members of The Advocate’s editorial board. Call it incestuous or call it harmless, but if nothing else, it’s just undeniably kind of awkward when the face of J. Enzo A. Camacho ’07, a member of the Art board, appears...