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...club coach Gene Kininmonth said in a January article on the team website, “If there is going to be a spoiler [to the proposal] it will be the ECAC, which currently controls men’s rowing nationally. I doubt it is about to willingly loosen its grip on the sport...
...French high school and college students marching in nationwide demonstrations this week aren't old enough to vote, their protest movement is already influencing the run-up to next year's presidential elections. As teachers, parents, and labor unions have joined growing opposition to a government law designed to loosen labor markets and battle dizzying youth unemployment, presidential hopefuls among conservatives and the leftist opposition alike have been forced to scramble to survive the rising tide of unrest - or try riding it to their advantage...
...What's at issue is a controversial new law that would loosen France's labor code and allow companies to fire job-seekers under 26 within two years of hiring them, without giving cause or shelling out the restrictive severance payments usually due when an employee is laid off. Since those protections often make the country's employers wary of bringing on new hires, Villepin has made the "First Employment Contract" law the centerpiece of his effort to cut unemployment among 25-year-olds-and-less from its dismal rate of 22% - and as much as twice that much...
...film deal. Her debut novel, called “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” will be available in bookstores this spring. The book, which tracks an academically-driven girl of Indian descent as she learns to loosen up, has already been picked up by DreamWorks Studios, who is in talks with Viswanathan about a film adaptation. Contrafilm and Alloy Entertainment will produce, according to Variety. The joint English and American Literature and Language and Economics concentrator—who turned 19 just last month—directed all requests for comment...
...happened, Santa overruled me and brought Daughter No. 2 a Bratz doll (though she came dressed in a karate outfit, which is practically a burqa by Bratz standards). Maybe in the best of all worlds, two sisters with two generations of dolls will play together. Barbie might loosen up a little and learn some new moves, while Roxxi might get some help in AP calculus. A mom can dream...