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...have done little more than further bloat France's budget deficit well beyond the 3% of gdp limit imposed by euro membership. Even the effectiveness of earlier attempts to attack unemployment remains a hot topic. Earlier this month conservative parliamentarians issued a scathing report denouncing the nation's 35-hour workweek, introduced in 2000 by the Socialist government and designed in part to encourage hiring. The study countered contentions that the scheme had created 350,000 jobs and new tax revenues with claims it had produced virtually no new posts and had cost taxpayers €15 billion in subsidies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revenge of the Jobless | 4/25/2004 | See Source »

...also quick to add that she had no objections to 24-hour UKA as it had “no overwhelmingly negative consequences...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Houses To Adopt Universal Access | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

Instead, Manckiewicz said, the news is slanted because the network presidents restrict us to a half-hour of national news in a 16-hour day of programming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McGovern Political Aide Says Watergate Aids Kennedy Rivals | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

Allman Brothers. 20,000 tickets. I four hours. And half the band is dead. I never even saw an ad, for Chrissake, and I'm still not sure whether this thing is for real or not. The Brothers are starting a metamorphosis into the kind of cult phenomenon the Dead have been for so long. Before this tour started, there were even rumors that the Dead and the Allmans would play a string of nine hour marathons across America. I think it's all too bad, because I genuinely love the Allman Brothers. I once got close enough to Dicky...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pop | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

...tradition of last year’s Mather Lather debacle, this weekend’s Leverett ’80s dance will prove equally disappointing as eager prefrosh flood the party, forcing it to close its doors after half an hour...

Author: By The Editors, | Title: PREDICTIONS | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

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