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...right with the election by parliament of Christoph Blocher, leader of the nationalist Swiss People's Party (SVP), to the Cabinet. Under the 44-year-old so-called magic formula, the four main political parties share seven Cabinet seats. The SVP, campaigning on an anti-immigration, anti-E.U. platform, emerged as the biggest parliamentary party in October elections. Blocher had threatened to withdraw the SVP from the government if he was denied a Cabinet post. Tough on Terror GREECE An Athens prosecutor asked a special antiterrorism tribunal to deliver multiple life sentences against six of 15 members...
...illegal immigrants has dropped dramatically over the past 10 years, particularly since laws were tightened in 1997. But even so, some 39,000 asylum seekers have entered the country so far this year, according to the U.N. - a number that dwarfs the 15,360 jobs offered to non-E.U. computer experts since Germany launched its "green card" system in 2000 - a program designed to help companies fill vacant high-tech jobs with skilled labor from overseas. Countries are beginning to collaborate to regulate the flow. The Spanish and Moroccan governments announced last week that they would launch joint marine...
...It’s a non-profit grassroots organization which supports U. N. causes,” UNAFF Founder and Stanford lecturer in Continuing Studies Jasmina Bojic said of the United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA), the organization from which her festival developed. She added that 176 chapters exist around the United States...
...it’s going on at something else,” says Zaccagnino. “One thing we’re definitely going to do next year is have a big tailgate party at the Harvard Yale game, where we’re gonna get a big U-Haul and set up speakers in all directions and have bands play on top. We want to just bring more music into things...
Maybe The Crimson didn’t turn out to be the one-line resume item I had thought it would be. But driving the U-Haul back from New Haven, singing oldies as we barrelled down the dark Mass. Pike, I didn’t regret not seeing my roommates more ornot finishing my Dostoevsky. And yet, when we pulled into The Crimson’s parking lot that night, I was glad to go back to my room and finally get some sleep...