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...vote wasn?t just about the big picture - dealing with a hostile Palestinian leadership in the West Bank and Gaza. It was also about more personal issues: as Israel drifts away from its socialist origins of collective farms and all-embracing welfare towards bustling capitalism, it has ignored the poorer folks left behind. That, say analysts, explains the voters? tilt to parties such as Labor, led by Moroccan-born Amir Peretz, which focused its campaign on social inequalities, and the parties such as Shas and Beiteinu that championed the neglected but sizeable Sephardic and Russian communities. The Pensioners Party, whose...
...blowout. “We were outplayed pretty much for the entire game, from top to bottom,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91, adding, “[In] our biggest game of the year, to come up with one of our poorer performances—[it’s] frustrating.” From the moment the puck dropped, Maine controlled the tempo. Stringing together a series of tape-to-tape passes and maintaining an aggressive forecheck, the Black Bears forced Harvard to spend the majority of the opening frame protecting...
...ideas of socialism and free love. The 2006 rallying point is a new law, backed by Villepin, to reduce France's chronic and debilitating youth unemployment, which has rarely fallen below 20% since 1983 and currently stands at 22% - and at more than 40% in the poorer neighbor-hoods that exploded in bitter rioting last fall. His plan: a "first employment contract" that allows employers to fire workers under the age of 26 within two years of their hiring, without cause and with no obligation to shell out France's hefty severance payments. Making it easier...
...heady concerns of 1968: Vietnam, Mao, Foucault and free love. The rallying point is far less stirring: a law backed by Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin that is meant to reduce France's chronic and debilitating youth unemployment, which stands at 22%--and at more than 40% in the poorer banlieues that exploded in rioting last fall. The new law allows employers to fire workers under age 26 within two years of hiring them-- without cause and with no obligation to shell out severance payments. Making it easier to fire workers, the government believes, will help employers overcome a reluctance...
...main ingredient in soda, even cheaper,” says David S. Ludwig, associate professor of pediatrics at HMS. Students who listed soda as an interest in their facebook profiles said that they would be disappointed if the price of soda rose. “I would be significantly poorer,” said Christina L. Adams ’06. “It’s quite possible my tution money would double.” However, Brennan R. Bilberry ’08 was less concerned. “I am happily fit and not obese...