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...could not locate in the text a single word about the most famous electrician in history, Nobel Prize winner Lech Walesa, his role in dismantling the Soviet empire, and the first noncommunist Prime Minister in Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe, Tadeusz Mazowiecki. It all started here in Poland. That is what I am teaching my kids, and that is what I expected to find in my favorite weekly. Christopher Komornicki, WOJTOWICE, POLAND...
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Finally, the law also legalizes what, in fact, is an already common (albeit illicit) practice in shops and malls clustered around Paris, Lille and Marseille - though limits it to those areas. The text calls for Sunday work to be left optional for employees and paid higher than other days, but opponents say those stipulations will be ignored once bosses start ordering employees fearful of losing their jobs to take on dominical work behind closed doors, and on management's terms...
...only putting a bit of order in a confused situation, and is in no manner a change to [our] model of civilization," the bill's sponsor, Labor Minister Xavier Darcos, promised senators going into their vote in the wee hours of July 23. "If the goal of this text were to generalize work on Sundays, I'd never have backed it." (See pictures of President Obama in France...