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...Unemployment is just one of multiple crises in a country that has seen its economy stuck in reverse gear for years: Two decades ago, 114 factories employed some 90,000 Haitians; today there are only 15 factories with slightly more than 15,000 employees. AG Textiles owner Georges Sassine, who employs about 400 people, has the capacity to create 5,000 new jobs in the next few months but for his precarious financial situation. For two years he has been hemorrhaging money; only in the last two months has he begun to break even. On his desk a baby...
...wealthiest, who would venture up from London every August to enjoy a spot of shooting. Of the 97% of Scotland that is rural land, 88% is privately owned, with two-thirds of that in the hands of 1,252 individuals, families and companies. Mohamed al Fayed, the Egyptian-born owner of swish department store Harrods, has 12,140 hectares; the Danish vice chairman of Lego, Kjeld Kirk Christiansen, 20,230 hectares. After the breakdown of Highland clan society in the turbulent years that followed parliamentary union with England in 1707, clan chiefs brutally evicted their tenants, clearing the land...
...criticizing their inability to contend with Berlusconi. A political movement built up around the director that circumvented the major opposition parties. Rallies sprang up in the form of giant human chains, one encircling the Rome headquarters of rai state television to protest Berlusconi's conflicts of interest as owner of half the country's TV channels - no wonder it was nicknamed the Ring-Around-the-Rosy campaign. A year later, Moretti quietly ceased his public political activities and began Il Caimano. His challenge was to sharpen a story that Italians were watching every day on TV. "A filmmaker should surprise...
...English team, Chelsea. Those ties also allowed Koné to go to the next level, signing Airness as the official uniform supplier for several French pro clubs and half a dozen national squads in Africa. Next season London club Fulham will join that stable, with a bonus for Airness: club owner Mohammed al Fayed will place Airness products in another asset of his--Harrods...
...owner of the Harvard Square hair salon About Hair, charged with rape and running a prostitution ring out of his store, appeared in Cambridge District Court on Friday for a pre-trial hearing in a preface to a trial set to begin this summer. Judge George Sprague set a timeline for the trial at yesterday’s hearing, scheduling the discovery motions—the next date Purdy is due in court—for July 27, according to Middlesex District Attorney (D.A.) spokeswoman Emily LaGrassa. Duncan W. Purdy, 52, who is also charged with indecent assault and battery...