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...place a rescue plan that includes lending $2.25 trillion to the European banks. The $700 billion Paulson plan seems a bit weak compared to that. And after the announcement of the rescue plan, European share prices soared. Who is emerging from the wreckage first now? Stanislas Bertrand, LYONS, FRANCE...
...yourself killed?") Like Portnoy, Marcus escapes to college in Ohio, where he is baffled and inflamed by the attentions of a sexually unfettered shiksa. Unlike Portnoy, Indignation is a weird, flawed little book, full of undigested dialogue and cut-and-paste philosophy (including a 10-page argument about Bertrand Russell that culminates in a fit of vomiting). It's half fantasy and half tantrum...
...Companies will at last be able to operate management policy based on a secure legal framework," Danièle Giazzi, a labor specialist for the ruling Union for Popular Majority party (UMP). "It's a remarkable advance for the economy." France's Labor Minister, Xavier Bertrand, the bill's author, hailed an "historic" revision of a law conceived by the country's "archaic" left, now in opposition. "It's the end of the imposed 35-hour week," he crowed...
...Bertrand's own wording belied a glaring incongruity in the law: while it allows employers to demand that workers spend more time at work, 35 hours remains the reference length of the French workweek. That's a smart move, since polls show the French are fond of the 35-hour week, and quashing it outright could prove unpopular...
Score one for pressure. Bill Clinton has flexed some muscle in the Caribbean, and Haiti's military regime seems close to crying uncle. Backed into a corner, the strongmen who have ruled Haiti since overthrowing President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991 appear to want a face-saving way out of the crisis they themselves sparked. The tale begins last Thursday evening. With visions of Somalia in mind, the staff of Haitian army commander Raoul Cedras drafted a ''letter of reconciliation'' to be presented to the U.S. What was offered, TIME has learned, contravened the key elements of the Governors Island...