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...with war at its edges and zealots in hiding and a President willing to risk everything by siding with the U.S. in its war against terror. His effort to drag Pakistan away from its tradition of fostering religious militancy may have inspired the country's holy warriors to wage their own war against him: a battle in which Pearl may have been the first American casualty...
...Union of the West." Meanwhile in Germany, the sputtering economic engine of Europe, the exigencies of an election campaign are re-intensifying the lively tradition of blaming Brussels. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, having quashed a European Commission warning letter over his government's mounting deficit, appears ready to wage his domestic campaign against Brussels - something his opposition rival Edmund Stoiber has been doing for years...
...unlucky position of having to persuade the Portuguese to instal another Socialist Prime Minister is Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, sometimes called Mr. Minimum Wage for having introduced one under Guterres. He and Durão Barroso faced off in a TV debate last week, continually talking over each other and not saying where they would rein in spending. This despite a manifesto calling for just that clarity - plus a long list of fiscal reforms - signed by eight prominent Portuguese, economists and a lawyer, of varying political persuasions. The lawyer, Vasco Vieira de Almeida, insisted after the debate that "quick action...
...janitors’ agreement, reached after six weeks of negotiations, raises wages to $11.35—$11.50 for janitors with three years at Harvard. By October 2005, the starting wage will go up to $13.50, with $14 per hour going to those with three years...
Elfenbein said that despite PSLM’s call for a wage floor of $10.25—the living wage established by the City of Cambridge—throughout last spring’s Mass. Hall sit-in, during actual negotiations these past weeks students realized “the numbers we’d been calling for were not sufficient.” Since the sit-in, the living wage increased to $10.68 with inflation...