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...more secure." The government is committed to tackling domestic violence, she says, and to helping women achieve equal opportunities in the workplace. She has her work cut out for her: Italy has the lowest percentage of working women in Europe. Only 2% of top management positions in Italy are held by women, less than in Kuwait. In last year's Global Gender Gap report from the World Economic Forum, Italy ranked 67th out of 130 countries. Such figures are particularly shocking for women like Elisa Manna, who is old enough to remember Italy's muscular feminist movement of the 1970s...
...Ignoring the rules can result in losing one's job. Why? Because if these things are constructed poorly, people will get hurt. Since Wall Street is in the business of "engineering" markets in order to make the greatest possible amount of money, why shouldn't they be licensed and held to similar standards? Mark Revis, MORENO VALLEY, CALIF...
...like a minimum-wage hike irked the political and business élite who fear Zelaya's ties to firebrand Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Zelaya overreached in June when he defied a Supreme Court order not to hold a referendum asking if a constitutional-reform assembly should be held. But instead of trying him legally for that crime, Zelaya's foes committed their own - flying him off to exile at gunpoint. (They rationalized the move by insisting Zelaya was plotting to lift Honduras' own ban on presidential re-election, though his referendum never broached the issue.) The Obama Administration...
...been little more than a vulnerable land bridge whose political tragedies are matched only by its natural disasters: earthquakes, volcanoes and hurricanes such as Mitch, whose floods almost wiped Honduras off the map in 1998. Honduras has yet to really recover from that calamity - and a presidential election held under the cloud of a coup isn't going to help. - With reporting by Tim Rogers / Managua...
Ryabkina’s goal turned out to be the game-winner as the Crimson held strong and secured the 3-2 victory over the Ivy League rival...