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...convinced stage hands to walk out. The scene verged on the surreal as actors collected their awards without music, backdrops, professional lighting or even microphones. All over France, unemployment has taken center stage. The spat over unemployment compensation in performing arts threatens to disrupt the Cannes film festival in mid-May. And two weeks ago, a Marseilles court overturned a 2002 reform that slashed jobless benefits from 30 to 23 months. The judges ruled that the move breached the contract workers entered into when they got their...
...terrorists" in custody in Iraq, including 300 with foreign passports. But the officials aren't always able to say where the detainees are, frustrating Iraqis desperately looking for friends or family members who have disappeared. The last time Raed Karim al-Ani saw his brother Mohammed, 27, was in mid-May, when the taxi driver climbed into his battered 1983 Volkswagen and chugged out the driveway of his parents' house. In early July two men came to the house with Mohammed's ID card and car, and said they had seen U.S. soldiers pin him to the ground...
...They announced in mid-May that they would not fund any travel to China for studies in the fall, and that...we could go in the spring or the following fall,” he said...
Under the weight of such rave reviews, Buell said, top FAS administrators hurried Menand through the approval process, with the final go-ahead coming in mid-May of this year...
...late April, doctors are dealing with a second outbreak in which more than 100 infections have been traced to the fourth floor of Toronto's North York General Hospital. Last week, officials were also investigating whether a U.S. man who visited a home for the elderly in Toronto in mid-May could have contracted SARS from a patient who was not showing symptoms at the time. Doctors say the chance of asymptomatic transmission is slim, but the possibility is worrying. "That changes the picture considerably because the whole basis for believing that you can put SARS back...