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...Spain's bricks, and boasts the greatest concentration of brick works in Europe. But right now, La Sagra's factories aren't making much of anything. "The warehouses are full," says Carlos Duque, general secretary for the Castilla-La Mancha branch of MCA-UGT, the construction workers' trade union. "They just don't have anyone to sell...
...which opened in New York City today and will run at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square for a week starting Oct. 24—followed Zisiadis and the three other candidates in the race for president of Stuyvesant High School’s Student Union (SU) in 2006.When Zisiadis was a junior in high school, filmmakers Caroline Suh and Erika Frankel wanted to make a documentary about the elite New York magnet public school’s SU election. Zisiadis, who had been freshman class president, had thrown his hat into the ring again when filming started...
...documentary called “Frontrunners” chronicles four students pursuing the much-coveted prize of Student Union President, including current Harvard sophomore George Zisiadis ’11. Move over Emma Watson—there’s a new movie star in town. “We were interested in the sport of politics, and wanted to do a light and funny take on it,” director Caroline Suh says. And Stuyvesant, with its exceptionally elaborate election process and high achieving student population, appeared the perfect choice...
...Since Medvedev and his calculating predecessor-turned-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin intervened in Georgia in August, relations between Moscow and the United States and European Union have been frosty. Though many hawks argue the Western powers were not forceful enough, Russia has paid for its bellicosity with capital flight. According to Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, the country has lost between $10 and $15 billion of foreign direct investment and its stock market is down close to 50 percent this year. Despite the global financial crisis affecting all markets, a considerable part of such downturns for energy-rich Russia...
...Those are the questions central to a federal lawsuit filed this month by New York City's teachers union. The United Federation of Teachers has sought a temporary restraining order against a district policy that bars teachers from wearing campaign buttons in the city's public schools. The prohibition, union officials argue, is a violation of teachers' First Amendment rights to free speech and political expression. "It doesn't matter whether you support Obama or Republican Senator John McCain," UFT president Randi Weingarten said at a press conference. "As voters, we all should have the right to express our views...