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...loosen his grip on power. "I haven't seen anything that shows he is willing to make any concessions on anything substantial,'' said Win Min, a Thailand-based author and Burma expert. The democracy protests, Burma's biggest political uprising in years, have done little to change the status quo...
...rail and utility workers. That's something successive governments have attempted repeatedly since the '80s, only to be thwarted by union-led opposition. Sarkozy's determination to storm the one bastion labor has successfully defended from creeping reform reflects his electoral promise to "rupture" with France's musty status quo. By launching that assault just six months into his five-year term, Sarkozy grasps how vital a victory in reforming public-sector pensions is to enabling the rest of his modernization program. "We were elected to transform France," Sarkozy said ahead of the strikes, "and will apply these reforms because...
...gave them a package of proposals. They walked off, and it’s up to them to tell us they have a response to those proposals.” For every writer in the streets with a Harvard degree trying to change the status quo, however, there’s a Harvard alum in a power suit trying to bring order to the chaos. Perhaps the most notable figure in the latter camp is Jeffery A. Zucker ’86, a former Crimson president who became CEO of NBC Universal last February. Additionally, senior vice presidents...
...people just can’t,” said Reitan. “He’s been through it. He’s experienced it.”But that’s not enough. Reitan stressed that people cannot go on being satisfied with the status quo, and motivating activism is central to the movie’s goals. “For a straight person who just feels, ‘Wow, it’s a different age, we’re in the age of ‘Will and Grace...
...what’s at the bottom of this? Why would Bush and some Republicans, who in some areas might champion efficiency, opt for a status quo that only increases costs for everyone else? Well, their fear is that if we provide basic primary care to the nation’s children, we are one step closer to “socialized” medicine and the land of Lenin. This may sound like dubious logic, but there’s an element of truth...