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...proposed changes in the welfare system, which is currently $46 billion in the red, have angered a populace wedded to generous cradle-to-grave social benefits. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have spilled into the streets. Leading the charge are the country's coddled public-sector workers, whose privileges include guaranteed employment, special pension benefits and early retirement--at age 50 for some categories...
That last was a grave misjudgment. Carlos Lopez, who did maintenance work, was solicitous only in public. At night neighbors heard dishes, pots and pans crashing against walls. In January 1992, a month after Awilda gave birth to his second child, Carlos stabbed her 17 times with a pocketknife, putting her in the hospital for three days. According to a neighbor, the attack occurred in front of Elisa, during a weekend visit. Carlos served two months in jail and then, neighbors say, resumed beating his wife--and his visiting stepdaughter...
...professors and students in the Humanities seek greater intellectual and social interaction why not preserve that 'great grave noble hall' which still fulfills its original mission so well," Morgan wrote...
...Bosnian Serb military held the Christian Science Monitor reporter on espionage charges from October 29 to November 7 after finding him taking pictures of an alleged grave for massacred Bosnian Muslims...
...snapping a photograph of a human femur at the second grave, a Bosnian Serb soldier arrested him and charged him with being...