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...does it draw from the remaining $1.3 billion in the rainy day fund.“In crafting this budget, the Committee was faced with an array of distasteful choices as a result of the global fiscal crisis,” wrote committee chairman Charles A. Murphy in a letter to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. “It is impossible to make budget cuts of this magnitude without adversely affecting wide portions of our society.”After the state House debates and revises the budget, the state Senate will draft a budget of their...
...Festival for Worker Justice is part of SLAM’s recent “Greed is the New Crimson” campaign. Last week, SLAM members approached University President Drew G. Faust with a letter outlining their concerns and requesting a meeting with the Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing body...
...Revenge. Less than two years after he left office with nearly record low approval ratings, former French President Jacques Chirac finds himself atop polls again as the nation's most popular politician. Better still, Chirac can now boast about getting plaudits from President Barack Obama, whose recent private letter to Chirac - parts of which were published in the French press - has been widely interpreted in France as recognition for the former French leader's stance on the Iraq...
...irritating it must have been for Sarkozy to read French press reports last month that revealed Bush's successor Obama had written a private letter to Chirac ahead of the London G-20 summit. In it, Obama tells Chirac he anticipates their chances to "collaborate together in a spirit of peace and friendship in order to build a safer world." Most French pundits interpret the letter as Obama giving Chirac credit for correctly opposing the Iraq war as a looming strategic and diplomatic calamity - a position Obama shared. According to French press reports, Sarkozy was livid at seeing the star...
...Perhaps the most unexpected criticism has come from General Vo Nguyen Giap, a revered Vietnamese military leader who helped defeat the French and later the Americans. In a letter to Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, the 97-year-old war hero voiced concern over the presence of large numbers of Chinese in the Central Highlands, which is a strategic gateway to Vietnam, one where battles have been won and lost...