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...INDICATORS Overtime Under Way The French Parliament approved controversial pension reforms requiring state employees to labor a further two-and-a-half years in return for a full pension. In line with the private sector, by 2008 all public workers will work for 40 years to get the maximum payout...
...that two 16-year-old boys in Beijing were convicted of stealing from a classmate. The teenagers have been sentenced to jail terms of four years and two-and-a-half years...
...RESIGNED. ARI FLEISCHER, 42, CHRISTIE TODD WHITMAN, 56, and TOMMY FRANKS, 57; from top Bush administration posts; in Washington. Fleischer will step down to work in the private sector after two-and-a-half years as press secretary, serving as the President's relentlessly on-message and sometimes unctuous spokesman on everything from the Enron scandals to the war in Iraq. Whitman, perennially sidelined chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, said she and her husband were tired of having a "commuter" marriage. Franks, the Army general who commanded U.S. forces during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, is retiring after...
...Black and White jumped out to an early lead, taking a five-seat advantage off the start. Radcliffe kept pushing, gaining open water at the 400-meter mark and extending the margin to two-and-a-half lengths by the Harvard Bridge, the halfway point of the race. The Black and White continued its pace for the rest of the course, winning by five lengths...
...time. But Palestinian leaders say they can't properly reconstitute their security services, let alone enforce an end to attacks on Israelis as long as the Israeli military maintains its security stranglehold on Palestinian territories. That impasse has dashed every U.S.-backed cease-fire effort over the past two-and-a-half years. And it remains an imposing first hurdle on the "roadmap...