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...European Union's then 15 countries, only three - Ireland, Britain and Sweden - agreed to open their labor markets in May 2004. Though East Europeans have settled everywhere from Scandinavia to Spain, the most evident result of the decisions taken on enlargement has been a concentrated flow of Poles into Britain and Ireland. And although politicians and media in those countries warned that an influx of workers from Eastern Europe would undermine local economies, steal jobs and bankrupt the welfare system, the impact has been quite different. Polish migrants like Chudzicka have integrated seamlessly: 75%, in one survey, said the Irish...
...week—but aren’t dozens of free newspapers in House dining halls worth the sacrifice? The sad fact of the matter is that The New York Times doesn’t endorse a candidate for the UC presidency, while the Asian-American Association, the Radcliffe Union of Students, and the Harvard Republican Club—which combined for almost $1,000 in grants this week alone?...
Perhaps we can’t all throw ourselves in the path of enemy fire like one of the soldiers Bush honored in the State of the Union, but we could give up our tax cuts so that the government could provide our troops with what they need to stay alive, without the nation spiraling into further debt. But difficult solutions don’t garner public support on their own. They require courageous leaders who advocate sound policy and ensure that all Americans feel their connection to the war overseas. The first step is to teach voters that supporting...
...Franklin and obtained trading records for Q Capital, and Mr. Franklin's own records for his personal account, and noticed that what they had in common was Morgan Stanley as the investment banker. We also noticed that a lot of the trading preceded upgrades and downgrades issued by UBS [Union Bank of Switzerland] and then the whole scheme began to unravel...
...life on the parliament floor or in the media, they're forced into the street - and into strange alliances. The Other Russia, in fact, is an unlikely motley amalgamation: members of the traditional democratic and liberal Yabloko party; new liberal factions, The United Civic Front and The Popular Democratic Union, led by former world chess champion Gary Kasparov and Putin's former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov respectively; and of the left radical extremist National Bolshevik Party (NBP), led by a flamboyant writer Eduard Limonov. While the liberal groups call for a return to democratic reform, the violence-prone NBP calls...