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...France's biggest banks. A day earlier, a meeting of shareholders in banking giant Fortis turned nasty when investors riled by the sale of ts recently nationalized Belgian banking arm lobbed shoes and other items at chairman Jozef De Mey. De Mey stood his ground, and won an eventual vote on the sale. But the twin incidents share the same roots: public trust in the financial system - and its well-paid execs - has probably never been lower...
...Dismayingly, but perhaps unsurprisingly, Labor’s Ehud Barak rejected calls from some of his senior party members not to join a coalition that included Lieberman. Worse, prior to the vote, he sought to outflank Lieberman in belligerence by claiming that Lieberman talks the talk but does not walk the walk. “Lieberman,” he said, “is strong in words and not in deeds. I do not know how many times, if ever, he held a rifle and shot anyone.” Barak believes that he—and not Lieberman?...
...like Alice Paul used hunger strikes in the early 20th century to rattle President Woodrow Wilson, who denounced such tactics as appalling and "unladylike," though he later buckled amid a public outcry over the forced feeding of the protesters and agreed to support the 19th Amendment granting women the vote. During World War II, a group of conscientious objectors at Connecticut's Danbury prison staged a 135-day strike against segregated dining. As a result, Danbury became the first federal facility with integrated meals...
...Souter was one of the four dissenters in Bush v. Gore, the case that allowed Florida to shut down the recount in that year's presidential election. Three years later he joined the six-vote majority that struck down laws forbidding gay sex. Two years after that he upheld the right of government to seize private property to encourage economic development...
...city was once just another of the squat and unpretentious capitals that dot Central America - almost all serviced by aging Bluebird buses, handed-down to the countries by U.S. school districts looking to dump their old fleets for newer models of transport. See pictures from Panama's historic 2006 vote on the canal...