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Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, president of the European Commission, called for an alignment of U.S. and European interests in an “Atlantic agenda for globalization” at a lecture on the evolving relationship between the United States and the European Union yesterday. The lecture, entitled “A Letter from Brussels to the Next President of the United States of America,” is part of the “Challenges of the 21st Century” series organized by Renée Haferkamp of the Center for European Studies. But despite the politically-charged...
...distribution of the bonus slightly, giving more money to teachers who are in charge of extra-curricular activities and less money to classroom aides.Klein’s plan represents a marked departure from traditional models of merit pay, which reward individual teachers for increased achievement. Teachers’ unions have historically criticized and opposed such schemes for many reasons, including the competition it provokes among teachers and the manner in which it rewards performance based solely on test scores. Klein’s concession to reward entire schools instead has been remarkable in winning union support, but sadly concedes...
...spent ten years behind bars on Robben Island, the infamous South African prison which held so many anti-Apartheid leaders it became known as the "university of the struggle", where he joined fellow inmate Nelson Mandela in the ANC. Upon release, he became an organizer for the National Union of Mineworkers, becoming its Secretary General in 1987. A decade later, was voted into the same position in the ANC, and became its deputy president...
...operator rather than a high-profile politician or empire builder, and is generally viewed as one of the intellectual anchors of the Zuma camp - which has challenged Mbeki's market-oriented economic policies from the left. Still, the widespread respect enjoyed by the former political prisoner and union organizer has positioned him as a bridge between the rival factions, and the leader many see as the one best able to ensure a smooth transition to Zuma?s presidency...
...sober French reaction marks how the nation has evolved towards a freer market system under European Union rules, even as it struggles to preserve parts of its vaunted welfare state. Over the past decade, millions of French citizens became first-time shareholders following a huge wave of privatizations, the bulk of them carried out in the late 1990s by a Socialist-led government. Meanwhile, once-modest executive compensation - long cited as proof of France's more egalitarian approach - has skyrocketed in recent years; in 2007 alone, pay for French top executives soared by an estimated 58%, according to the French...