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...siege of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority - has turned out to be moot. The U.S. and the EU continue to refuse to give direct aid to any Palestinian government with Hamas in it, despite the unity government. A narrower Hamas government would also be in a better position to prevent the already fragile Arab League initiative offering Israel a comprehensive peace agreement in exchange for a returns to 1967 borders...
...violence that has claimed 41 lives since Saturday and left the city paralyzed by a general strike on Monday began when MQM supporters took to the streets to prevent opposition supporters from welcoming Iftikhar Choudhry, the chief justice sacked by Musharraf two months ago, whose legal challenge to his ouster has become a rallying point for government opponents. Iftikhar was scheduled to attend the 50th anniversary of the Sindh High Court Bar Association in the city, but a couple of days before his arrival, the MQM announced plans to hold a rally at the same time to challenge the opposition...
...same point they were when we met them. Yet, for all its inconclusiveness, this is a curiously entertaining film. Its sets may be visibly false, but there is something truthful about its message: it is saying that big cities - even heartbreakingly beautiful ones like Paris - conspire to prevent us from making connections that in simpler contexts might easily be made. Private Fears in Public Places, is a sad, wry, yet not entirely devastating contemplation of the loneliness of cities and of the little, self-absorbed lives that they shelter...
Harvard can choose to require AlliedBarton to pay security guards more fairly and prevent arbitrary dismissals or punitive scheduling decisions. It could easily enforce the Wage and Benefit Parity Policy and strengthen it to prevent other harmful labor practices. Instead, it chooses to deny responsibility for campus workers by hiring a separate management company to do its dirty work. SEIU’s only opportunity to organize outsourced workers is to place accountability on those who hire the subcontractors, as this campaign is doing and as they have done in Justice for Janitors campaigns around the country...
...should take the polypill. Separate trials in Australia (in the indigenous community) and New Zealand will involve 1,200 subjects who have had a cardiovascular event. A problem with patients in this category is that, after six months or so, many stop taking the battery of medications prescribed to prevent a second episode. Often they feel well and balk at the cost, inconvenience or stigma of popping five pills a day. But slackening off can be deadly: between a third and a half of the more than 50,000 Australians (and 11,800 New Zealanders) who die each year from...