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...take his holidays, I would have to sign that. This is crazy. This is micromanagement. But the reason that existed was that one hand people thought that was control, and that comes from a legacy of authoritarianism and dictatorship and so on, so a lot of power at the center of the state. But it also becomes easily clientelistic. You have to come to me for the smallest of favors. And then I've got your vote. And then I've been able to influence you. That's what we're changing...
...worst over for Greece? I think the worst is over for the crisis that we've had, the sort of peak of the crisis. But there's a lot of work to be done, difficult work. The pain is still there because the cuts, the wage cuts, the economic measures are biting and people will all feel this in the next few years. But if we do what is necessary, we'll come out of this stronger and much more viable. And that's what my hope is - and my belief is - that we can do this. Sometimes crises...
...latest Sam update: he is 20, studying industrial design and father to an 8-month-old boy, Jax. Lamott didn't expect to become a grandmother this soon (she's about to turn 56). "My heart sank," she admits. "But I have written a lot of books about faith, and it was really money-where-your-mouth-is time." Jax "has just been an absolute blessing every step of the way," she says. She keeps perspective: it's better to gain a child to love than to lose one. And being a grandmother is a blast, she says. "It really...
...Beyond specific policy improvements, progressives need to push back against language in the debate that tends to paint undocumented immigrants as guilty of anything but attempting to improve their lot. As [Senator Lindsey] Graham and [Senator Charles] Schumer wrote ... undocumented immigrants 'would be required to admit they broke the law and to pay their debt to society.' There's another case to be made: we owe a debt to them...
...large-scale production of electric cars. For starters, the country does not have an auto industry. Second, Danes pay a 180% tax for new-car registration, while there is no such fee imposed on electric autos, an attractive incentive for consumers. "If we are successful, that gives us a lot of learning and new development in new technology and businesses in Denmark," says Eldrup. He adds, "It also gives us value in exporting." (See the top 10 news stories...