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...feisty - but didn't offer a new recovery plan. Opposition leader Angela Merkel ridiculed his lack of new ideas. "You give us the impression of a man with his back to the wall," Merkel said. Schröder will have to do better if he wants to stem the tide of departing Mittelstand businesses. One place to start: a planned increase in employer pension and health-insurance contributions, due to take effect next year, that has many businessmen considering a move. A late November poll by an association of entrepreneurs found that 7.4% of the 300 companies surveyed had already...
...Churchill's Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain. To Cannadine, the story of modern Britain is "the feeling that things were no longer as great or as stable or as splendid as they had once been." As empire and prosperity slipped away, a few voices rose to stem history's tide. He assesses the efforts of comic-opera geniuses Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as novelist Ian Fleming, whose agent James Bond was a one-man antidote to the Cold War. Also Margaret Thatcher, for whom decline was a moral question but whose "hectoring intolerance proved her undoing...
Many of the problems stem from poorly-written election regulations in the council bylaws, which even the Election Commission Chair David I. Montiero ’04 recognizes to be “competing if not conflicting.” But that does not eliminate the responsibility of the commission to fashion an interpretation that is sensible for all parties. Its first ruling penalized David M. Darst ’04 for inappropriately gathering signatures, but the alleged infraction occurred before the rules were even finalized...
...Stem cell research for IVF spares and embryos created for research fall on the same moral level,” he said, adding that the next logical step in the argument is to establish the moral status of the embryo as a person, a thing, or something in between...
Sandel concluded that the merits of stem cell research in finding cures for disease carries more moral weight than the desire of parents to have children through IVF therapies...