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...close disciples are about to fall victim to courts. Just last year, he presented a bill openly known as “Salva Previti,” which restricted the statute of limitations to save…his pal Cesare Previti.An aging population, the lowest birth rate in Europe, stagnant growth rates, decreasing exports, low productivity, high regional unemployment, and deficits far beyond EU standards: Italy faces too many challenges for this circus. The April elections are around the corner, but Italy is on the brink of the abyss. Hence, Berlusconi’s antics cease to be amusing...
Even larger economic forces may play a role. "It seems to be inextricably bound up to ... stagnant wages in the global economy," Clinton told the Governors. "The price of everything has gone up except food. Food is still a good deal in America." Rates of childhood obesity are worst among the poor and are a particular challenge in immigrant communities--in part because there's no cheaper dose of assimilation than a trip to Burger King. The New York Times Magazine reported that a couple of years ago, after administrators trimmed fat and sugar from menus at schools...
...realistic, ask for the impossible” was one of the slogans that turned the French riots of 1968 into the symbol of a generation. A widespread struggle against laissez-faire capitalism, the Vietnam War, and stagnant social institutions, the riots were ignited by Sorbonne University students in an attempt to ‘defend’ their alma mater. Oh, college! Similarly, this past weekend, the French police have evicted Sorbonne students trying to revive the uprising, this time in response to a bill from the conservative government attempting to relax labor laws for young employees. Despite the remnants...
...influence of relationship history on one’s dating outlook, she includes an anecdote from a 14-year-old: “The first boy I ever dated kissed with a soggy open mouth...I felt as if I were being forced to lick the side of a stagnant well. His tongue was a live, wriggling fish that reeked of algae and muck that left a trail of glistening slime across my lips...[So] I figured that kissing was just another of those nasty things that adults had to endure, like scraping dinner plates and wiping baby?...
Current undergraduates seem to think that Summers was in the vanguard of a courageous attack on a stagnant faculty, and are treating him as a martyr to the cause of curriculum reform. This is not the case...