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...commenting. As Vivendi is finding to its cost, even the best French expert can get things wrong. Hmm ... This may be a bit too fair Britain announced plans to ban age discrimination in the workplace by October 2006. In line with an E.U. directive, it will outlaw mandatory retirement ages, end ageist job advertising, and allow Britons the choice of working until they are 70. The government claims the ban will effectively boost the number of skilled workers. But trade unions suspect a different motive. "People don't want to work longer," says Derek Simpson, general secretary of the Amicus...
...straight out of classic Hollywood, a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Anglo-American spy spoof. If Bond and Matt Helm outrageously flout social norms, MM seems to follow an inverted morality, almost defying the reader to accept him. Yet there's something charmingly retro about Bahal's "outlaw" approach. His closest literary parallel is with the Beats: the grim, druggy surrealism of William S. Burroughs, the headlong rush of Jack Kerouac...
...action opponents, Blum said he and other groups would continue to oppose race in admissions, but focus their attention on summer programs and scholarships that are given only to minorities. Other groups, too, may continue to file suits against college affirmative actions programs. Because the decision doesn't completely outlaw affirmative action or permit it in all cases, students are likely to file suit against other colleges, arguing that their affirmative action programs favors race too much and doesn't focus enough on the individual applicant as the Court calls on universities...
...from entering the territory. Riel's knowledge of English, Montreal education, and overall charisma made him a natural leader. Democratically inclined, he organized a provisional government that included the minority English settlers. Yet his efforts would be repeatedly undermined by the Canadian establishment until eventually he became a wanted outlaw...
Iraq may well be found to have stashes of chemical and biological weapons, perhaps even a nuclear program, but the fact that such weapons haven't been used in the field is not insignificant. It cuts into the American story line: that this was a dangerous, outlaw regime ready to go to any lengths to stay in power. Saddam's minions have gone to some lengths--car bombs, false surrenders, using civilians as shields--but these have become the standard ceremonies of terrorism, the coin of the realm in that part of the world. And if no major stashes...