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...organizations monitoring labor activity. However, conservatives have consistently accused the law of shackling French businesses and undermining economic growth. They've also noted that state subsidies softening the impact of the reduced workweek on businesses have cost taxpayers billions. The new legislation, its backers say, will leave companies freer to demand more work from staffers when needed, and allow employees to heed Sarkozy's appeal to help lift the economy - and their own slumping purchasing power - by working more...
...party's nomination struggle than their numbers would indicate. So the main Republican presidential hopefuls were already pledging their antiabortion allegiance. But where was George Bush? The Vice President had a good claim to urgent duties in Canada, where he presented the U.S. position in negotiations on freer trade. J.C. Willke, president of the National Right to Life Committee, at first accused Bush of reneging on a promised Denver appearance but then met him amicably in the White House and withdrew the accusation. Willke even read a greeting from Bush to the convention. The antiabortion positions of the prospective Republican...
...There is, in this Saturday morning tableau, the hint of a little freedom, of individual preferences expressed, plucked from a global menu of possibilities. Chinese kids Zhou's age don't have political freedom, but they are a lot freer in many ways than their parents ever were. Think of it: hordes of Chinese kids on a spring Saturday, mimicking the moves not only of their local hoop heroes, but also of Kobe and D-Wade and T-Mac, vigorously debating whether China has any chance to beat the U.S. at this summer's Olympics in Beijing (Zhou shakes...
...CUBA ANY FREER? Not politically. In fact, critical blogs like Generación Y say the government has slowed their sites down in recent weeks to cut off visitors...
...Ultimately, this is the kindest reading one can make of Wolf Totem - that of a howling if confused paean to liberty, born of sublimated political frustrations that millions of Chinese can relate to. "In 20 years, I think it is inevitable that China will evolve into a freer society," says Jiang. But curiously there is no such optimism in the book. The wolves - those symbols of perfect freedom - are exterminated by officials as part of a plan to turn the grasslands over to large-scale farming, and Chen Zhen, the protagonist, can find only hackneyed, metaphysical solace as he meditates...