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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...when you strip people of the last possibility to have even a minimum of planning security in their lives. Anna Filipczak 22, student of social work, chairwoman of the Independent Student Association, Warsaw University I see nothing wrong with a law that makes it easier for an employer to lay off a graduate. Actually, I think it's good for a young person. It teaches him or her to be flexible. The French must realize that the times when a person had one job all his life with all benefits are simply gone. The French thinking is backward thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moment of Youth | 4/9/2006 | See Source »

...ORLEANS—At the end of the week, they could say this: they had helped to lay the foundations of five homes here in the Ninth Ward. To the 10 students from Mather who worked during spring break at the construction site, that didn’t seem quite enough...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Service, They Bring New Orleans Back Home | 4/7/2006 | See Source »

...persuade that patient to come to me. So what do I offer a patient who, we are told, really doesn't need me? A multi-million dollar lobby. The Boss saw what was really behind that glitzy facade, and he saw what lay ahead as well. And of all the things that take the joy out of practicing medicine, that is perhaps the most insidious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why It's Not About Sick People | 4/6/2006 | See Source »

...seeing the destruction.In the Ninth Ward, a heavily flooded, poor neighborhood where several undergraduate teams worked over spring break, rusty cars had been turned upside down and rugs flung over tree branches. One porch was missing its house. On it sat a single folding chair. And the debris lay piled into mounds like primitive graves, reminders of homes that once were.—Staff writer April H.N. Yee can be reached at aprilyee@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Affected By Relief | 4/5/2006 | See Source »

...saying in Washington that diplomacy is the art of getting someone else to have your way. For Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, the most senior diplomats of the nations that invaded Iraq three years ago, the way is clear: Iraqi politicians must lay aside sectarian and factional differences, and sometimes plain old ego-tripping, and quickly form a ?national unity? coalition government to fulfill the promise of the unprecedented national elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: 'Skepticism is Certainly Understandable' | 4/4/2006 | See Source »

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