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...going to make sure people have a safety net." Experience: Deputy Labor leader and shadow Industrial Relations minister since Dec. '06 One of Labor's strongest performers, Gillard would be Australia's first female Deputy P.M. Attacked as too close to unions, she managed to occupy middle ground in the important industrial-relations debate. She's been unflappable in the face of personal attacks, including a Liberal M.P.'s outburst that she was "deliberately barren...
...Indian Airlines. "The people from my village thought I was a very big man and could show them the aircraft," he says. "But due to security I could not." In 2003 he bought a 20-year-old Indian Airlines plane "that had met with a small ground incident," cut it up and reassembled it in Dwarka, a fast-growing neighborhood of weed-infested sidewalks and burgeoning middle-class aspirations. Because space is limited, the plane has been cut down to about two-thirds its normal length and is held in place by thick concrete pillars. Inside, Gupta replaced the bulkhead...
...Here’s the Problem”—is just as interesting in that Solove again focuses his discussion of the murky problem of law on the Internet through the lens of specific cases. The author stresses the importance of finding a middle ground between the libertarian approach, which calls for little to no government tampering with the Internet, and the authoritarian approach, which calls for strict control. He then highlights individual laws by discussing real life situations in which they were applied. Although some of Solove’s comparisons to events long in the past...
...days before Harvard Square became a prime breeding ground for banks and storefronts filled with eyeglass frames, window displays were dressed with another kind of intellectual accessory. Books used to be abundant in the Square in the 60s, readily available at more than 20 independent book stores. Now, as 2007 draws to a close, Harvard Book Store celebrates the end of its 75th year in business. Its ability to hold its ground while its fellow locally owned bookstores have fallen prey to corporate outsiders means that the bookstore is now Harvard Square’s premier independent center...
...Many Dems are so loath to cede the high fiscal ground painstakingly won from the G.O.P. that they are willing to hit Wall Street with a new tax. But others have very parochial reasons to want to protect private equity. Senator John Kerry, for example, was opposed to a version of the bill that was floated this summer and only came out for this latest iteration with some fairly significant caveats. "We should do it in [a way that] avoids unintended consequence[s] and harm to other similarly structured partnerships in other fields," Kerry said. In Massachusetts the private equity...