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...most significant of the two developments came as unions representing French public service workers fulfilled threats to bring transportation across the nation to a crawl on Thursday, with strikes protesting proposed tightening of pension schemes. The action forced millions of French commuters to drive, cycle, walk, or roller-blade to work as public transport systems in nearly 30 French cities were hit by strikes of varying severity. Such self-reliance wasn't an option for users of inter-city and cross-country train service: state rail company SNCF canceled a whopping 95% of scheduled traffic, and remains the most vulnerable...
...after so earnestly professing its insolvency, the UC is suddenly rich. This suggests that either the Harvard University Employees Credit Union is paying some suspiciously generous interest on its savings accounts, or else something is seriously amiss with the UC’s finances...
...Pelosi has pointed out, “there’s never been a good time” to draw Turkey’s ire over this issue. Furthermore, a modern nation yearning to join the European Union ought to make peace with its past. If President Bush can claim that acts of genocide will never occur “on his watch,” surely he should not shy away from recognizing one for the sake of political expedience. We are also disappointed that leadership of the recognition of the Armenian genocide has largely been left to politicians...
...would be a fatal mistake for you to list a bill of particulars,” Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes said on Wednesday at his weekly tea. “A comparison of this address with the State of the Union is quite false, and all you’ll do is give your enemies a shopping list with which...
...address had a cadence and certainty more associated with the State of the Union than a lecture hall. And it had a specificity that Rudenstine’s lacked, more clearly setting out Summers’ agenda...