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...Mercury is no good, so ... I am going to request not to speak." (Refusing to answer press questions for astrological reasons last November...
...protection in other ways, possibly by increasing the tax burden on employers who purposely use short-term contracts for revolving-door workers, and stiffening the laws regulating the use of internships. Yet withdrawing the law is no easy matter: the only legislative course would be a humiliating request to Villepin's own party to approve new legislation trumping a law enacted just weeks ago. Villepin's best political hope, Moïsi suggests, might be for the Socialist opposition to win a court challenge it has filed to overturn the law. But dumping an unpopular policy would leave the larger...
Associate Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) Gideon Lester was so impressed by Dorin’s aspirations that he asked to become the play’s advisor, a flattering request from someone already so highly situated in professional theatre...
...John Roberts, through the confirmation process. CBS quoted Baker, who has previously complained that the current West Wing doesn't listen to him, as saying, "I did not recommend firing anyone, just adding a new face." Baker's law office in Tennessee did not immediately respond to a request for comment...
...Such a request only highlights that Khalilzad has little influence on the forces driving the war. For all his success at bringing Sunni political groups into the mainstream, the insurgency rages on. U.S. efforts to exploit splits between foreign jihadist groups and secular, homegrown insurgents have had only limited success. Equally frustrating is the U.S.'s inability to rein in excesses by the Mahdi Army, the Shi'ite militia loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Khalilzad concedes that al-Sadr is "a challenge that has to be dealt with." The preferred option would be for Iraqi security forces...