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...seems that everyone - doctors, judges, steelworkers, bus drivers - is venting anger over Berlusconi's handling of the economy. Last week a one-day strike of some 150,000 doctors and other medical workers forced the cancellation of nearly 700,000 nonemergency operations and appointments. Doctors, who are planning a two-day strike in March, complain that the government hasn't renewed their contract and is trying to replace the national health-care system with a strictly regional one. The strike was just the latest in a lengthening list, including walkouts by Alitalia employees and public-transport workers upset about salary...
...protestors’ two-day trial began on Feb. 10. Tanaka, fearing a sentence of up to 30 days in jail, e-mailed his friends and asked them to come to the courtroom on Wednesday to show their support. Over half a dozen students answered Tanaka’s request...
...Grimm Lewis and his wife Victoria paid $400 to attend a two-day PREP seminar in Los Angeles in a final attempt to save their 28-year-old marriage. "I think this will help," says Victoria, the more eager of the two. "I think of it as chemotherapy." Rod figures he's being a good sport. "I came because she asked me to," he says. "I'm about 5% of the problem, and she's 95%." Marc Sadoff, the workshop leader, says, "It's good to hear that you can acknowledge you're 5%. So many people...
...Gottman technique usually involves a $495 two-day workshop, followed by nine private therapy sessions costing $1,260, which Gottman recommends as a supplement. These attempt to conquer the four most common, corrosive negative factors in unstable unions: criticism (You never ... You always ... ), defensiveness (Who me? I'm not defensive), contempt (You're too stupid to realize how defensive you are) and stonewalling (I'll just let it blow over). Gottman says 85% of stonewallers...
...City, designed to play down the country's reputation as a nanny state. Targeting Aristide HAITI Three people died and more than 20 were injured in violent clashes between opponents and supporters of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Opposition leaders, who accuse Aristide of corruption, called a two-day general strike, which shut down many businesses in Port-au-Prince. MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... Ye Cannae Dae That To many, the Scottish lilt is charming and even rather attractive (think Sean Connery). But not, it seems, to the British Foreign Office, which was forced to apologize for denying a Russian student...