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...haired former trucking lobbyist, was hoping not to send mixed signals, he failed; in the partisan pressure cooker of the nation's capital, where the chamber is more than ever a lightning rod for the role of business in politics, his critics saw the organization's campaign as simply part of its effort to block the Democrats' agenda on everything from health-care reform and climate change to financial regulation. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
Celebrate the Day of the Dead by watching ballet folklorico, taking part in a skull design competition, and enjoying mariachi music...
...more practical. Berlitz also offers First Jobs, an increasingly popular course in which students are taught business and financial English vocabulary and are given help improving their résumés and job-interviewing skills - in English. "These are students who've wanted to improve their English as part of many things they'll need in their careers," says Alain Nothern, the polyglot director of Berlitz's Opera center. "The focus is English, but it's a wider tool kit for the business world...
...accord resulted "not so much from what we were telling Micheletti but from what other Hondurans were telling Micheletti." In a speech Thursday night, Micheletti called the Zelaya restoration concession "significant" but acknowledged Hondurans "are clamoring to turn our history's page past these difficult moments." For his part, Zelaya, who at times has exasperated U.S. and international mediators with his own hyperventilated statements, said he was "satisfied" and "confident that my reinstatement is imminent...
...collective shrugging in France at the charges? Part of the reason may be that other illegal political funding schemes were commonplace in France from the 1970s to the early 1990s when a series of laws were passed to crack down on the practice. The French also tend to be more scornful of public officials who use corruption to enrich themselves personally, which Chirac isn't accused of doing in this case...