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...before the general election, that exhorts the public to disapprove of a Congressman who favors logging in national forests; the National Rifle Association publishes a book urging the public to vote for the challenger because the incumbent U. S. Senator supports a handgun ban; and the American Civil Liberties Union creates a website telling the public to vote for a presidential candidate in light of that candidate's defense of free speech...
Berlusconi's allies insist that they are simply responding to a 2007 European Union directive that requires individual countries to set up new media regulations. "The decree does not intend to censor the right to information online, nor to limit the possibility of expressing your ideas and opinions via blogs and social networks," Italy's Vice Minister of Communications, Paolo Romani, said in a statement...
...compared with the tidal wave of layoffs around the world in the past year. But the proposed cuts - about a third of which would be in Belgium - follow the company's announcement of profits of $1.55 billion in the third quarter of last year. This has angered the Belgian unions, which are taking a stand against what they see as an affront to the country's beer-making tradition. "This is the ugly face of capitalism," says Roger Van Vlasselaer, who heads the Flemish Brabant section of the ABVV-FGTB, Belgium's main union. "AB InBev are just thinking...
...Establishing a rival to Mars as the world's largest confectioner does not come without challenges, though. Having borrowed heavily to buy Cadbury, Kraft will be under pressure to cut costs and raise margins at the British company. To some, that spells job cuts. The British trade union Unite claimed earlier this month that some 7,000 Cadbury workers would be under threat if the proposed takeover went through. Another analyst, Howard Wheeldon, a senior strategist at BGC Partners, questioned on Tuesday whether the acquisition would herald "a partial breakup" of the British business. (See a TIME video about...
...moves Harvard into eighth place in the ECAC as it prepares to travel to league-leading Union on Friday...