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...hungry man is an angry man." AZIZ DWEIK, new Speaker of the Hamas-led Palestinian Parliament, warning Israel of potential consequences from its decision to withhold the tax revenues it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority...
...President has proposed that illegal immigrants be permitted to stay in the U.S. and apply for a three-year temporary work visa that could be renewed once. Their incentive to leave after six years would come in the form of tax-preferred savings accounts set up in their country of origin. Bush has stressed that because he does not believe illegal acts should be rewarded, the visas would provide no "automatic" path to permanent residency and citizenship. But, as he told Mexican President Vicente Fox last week, guest workers can "get in line," like all other applicants. Bush has promised...
...small executable steps. We are very comfortable with her style." But are small steps enough to tackle Germany's underlying economic woes? Merkel has spent her first four months tending to Germany's role in global affairs. Now she will take up a series of reforms to health care, tax, pensions and, most importantly, labor markets that will really test the solidity of her grand coalition and her own popularity. "She has accumulated a heap of political capital," Reinhard Bütikofer, chairman of the opposition Green party, tells Time. "One of these days she is going to have...
...egalitarian impulse of the spd, which could impose a heavier burden on employers and increase the cost of labor, against the free-market instincts of her own party, which may not find a way to raise enough cash. But the government also has on its agenda reforms of the tax system and the way in which laws are approved at the federal and state levels. And eventually it has to tackle labor-market restrictions that can make hiring in Germany prohibitively expensive, but which the spd and unions still support. "The coalition will be a success...
...march after hearing so much about it on the radio, UCLA Professor Abel Valenzuela realized how influential the talk shows were. In other cases, chatter on the airwaves about protests elsewhere inspired left-out listeners to become accidental activists. All day long on March 22, Martha Ramirez, a tax preparer and mother of four in Kansas City, Mo., heard a deejay tell a string of curious callers that while other cities would be holding protests during the upcoming weekend, no demonstrations were planned for her hometown. Ramirez, 31, decided to lead a rally herself, and got 2,500 people...