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...Gender quotas are new to Germany but they've been implemented elsewhere. After a heated debate, Norway passed a controversial law in 2003 requiring that 40% of all board members of publicly listed companies had to be women. The measure paid off: company boards went from just 7% female in 2003 to 40% in January 2008. Spain, the Netherlands and France are now planning similar laws. Sweden doesn't have a quota system, but it has introduced other measures to help women combine work and family life, such as tax cuts for household and child-care services and incentives...
...came when Westerwelle launched a blistering attack on Germany's cherished welfare state, criticizing handouts for the long-term unemployed. Raising welfare benefits smacks of socialism, Westerwelle wrote in the daily Welt newspaper on Feb. 11. "Whoever promises the people effortless prosperity encourages late Roman decadence." The FDP leader went on to argue that those who work should always get more than the unemployed and that young jobless Germans should take up community work like shoveling snow. (Read: "Guido Westerwelle: Angela Merkel's Unlikely Partner...
...with the rantings of a half-dozen furious characters. It's brave, bold and so abrasive that you almost want to give up. You feel as if you're trapped in Michael Moore's head, being lectured on all his pet subjects. I was reading, but still, I almost went deaf. (See the best books of the decade...
...This was just the opening salvo. The outspoken O'Leary, who once said that swine flu was only a risk for Asians and Mexicans "living in slums," went on the offensive. In his own statement on March 15, he questioned why, if easyJet values punctuality as its website claims, the airline hasn't published its weekly on-time flight ratings since last April. "Like all spoilt children, [Haji-Ioannou] laps up the attention of being Mr. easyJet, but he can't take the criticism, even when in this case it's valid," he said in his message. Then things...
After losing the first set 6-1, Rosekrans came back to win, 6-2, in the second and went on to hold off her opponent, 7-6. Lehman also narrowly shut down the opposition...