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...taxes, due to rise 40% by January. Medical workers are wary of his plans to overhaul France's health-care system. Actors and stagehands, outraged by his tightening of their unemployment benefits, shut down the summer culture season. Strikes by teachers and transport employees, incensed over his plans to reform pensions, brought the country to halt in May and June. And leading members of his own party are slamming his economic and social policies for being everything from too liberal to insufficiently ambitious. But since this is France, which has so often proved itself impervious to reform, fierce opposition like...
Doris Haddock, better known as “Granny D,” the 93-year-old woman who walked across the country from 1999 to 2000 to advocate campaign finance reform, is on the move again...
...great masses cannot be left thinking they are powerless under the system,” added Haddock, who walked during her last cross-country tour with a sign around her neck that read “Granny D for campaign finance reform...
...helped to make the previously obscure issue of campaign finance reform popular with the American public...
...current schedule may be at risk of a redesign that shifts exams before Christmas. The Committee on Calendar Reform, named last Thursday, will be discussing potential changes in the College’s calendar in an effort to coordinate all schools in the University. The committee will include two undergraduate and three graduate students, as well as professors from each of the schools to garner a variety of perspectives on the ten schedules that currently co-exist at Harvard...