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...closure has left teachers suddenly adrift in a strange land. Many, like Steele, have taken to the streets, leading demonstrations against Nova and Sahashi and holding press conferences denouncing the company. On Nov. 2 former Nova employees announced a lessons-for-food program, which would allow students to pay for classes in meals and groceries. Meanwhile, some airlines have offered discount flights home for cash-strapped teachers, while embassies have opened hot lines to aid their stranded citizens. The out-of-work teachers have glutted the local labor market, causing other schools to stop accepting job applications. "The market...
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Musharraf had dismissed a number of Supreme Court justices; suspended the constitution and rights to speech, press, and assembly; and granted extensive powers to the military. Some lawyers, judges, activists, and students have been preemptively kept under house arrest or detained by the police for protesting...
...Nicolas Sarkozy, the crafty political operator known for exploiting his opponents' weaknesses in ways they don't expect. A social dinner Tuesday night at the White House was followed by a trip Wednesday to Mount Vernon set the collegial tone. And Bush laid it on thick at a joint press conference at Washington's home Wednesday, saying Sarkozy had "impressed a lot of people here on your journey," and telling the French leader that he has "a strong set of universal values in your heart...
...Within a week outraged Democrats and unions were holding press conferences of their own. "We were unaware of the negotiations. If they had meetings we were not notified," Senator Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, told a virtually identical group of Capitol Hill reporters. "Those that talk about being able to run this through the Congress like a hot knife through butter, I'm sorry, that's not the way it's going to be. We're going to push and insist on a new approach...