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...definite downward trend since the series of large-scale strikes against his labor and education reforms in the fall of 2007. Various groups of public employees including teachers, civil servants, and public transport workers responded with anger to Sarkozy’s plan to slash France’s generous pensions. Perhaps their anger had something to do with the fact that Sarkozy, while espousing the values of hard work and love of labor, announced plans to increase his own presidential salary by 150 percent in October 2007. Thankfully, the contradictory and extravagant nature of Sarkozy’s personality...
...time, few of Harvard’s peer institutions had generous parental leave policies, she said...
...descendants of the British colonists whose actions are now being apologized for are far too sensitive about the negatives of colonization and not sufficiently staunch about the great amount of inspired, inventive, generous, inclusive, improving good that their forebears brought about for indigenous people. This point has been lost in a one-sided debate. Bruce Morley, Auckland...
...politically motivated, and her government's early support of the Taliban regime in neighboring Afghanistan is forgotten. Her insistence that 3 million supporters thronged the streets of Karachi to greet her return from exile strains credibility, especially as most journalists and observers have put that number, by the most generous estimates, at 300,000. Most egregious however, are her overwrought descriptions of the terrible blast that same night. Her claim to have heard the faint cries of "Jeay Bhutto" - "Long live Bhutto" - from the wounded as they lay dying in the streets smacks of cheap political mythmaking...
...their critique. “A lot of people consider if you do something personal, you’re selfish,” he says. “And if you do something that’s completely broad to make a lot of money, you’re generous.” Gondry cultivated the tastes that made him less appealing to mainstream critics during his residency at MIT. The Institute embodies the do-it-yourself ethic that Gondry embodies. “A lot of people are making projects here on the side that are scientific in spirit...