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...edge of the city. But today, many mills have shut down. Last year, the number of steelworkers in Germany plunged to 78,000 - nearly half of whom live in Duisburg - from 297,000 in 1960. Unemployment runs at 18%, well above the national average of 11.8%. The spd blames ruthless capitalists; party chairman Franz Müntefering accused foreign investors of stripping assets and ignoring the human cost in jobs and livelihoods (see sidebar). North Rhine-Westphalia's spd governor Peer Steinbrück joined the chorus during a debate with his rival, cdu candidate Jürgen...
...divided society and, in Turkey's volatile southeast where most Kurds live, a greater number of abuses by the authorities, claims Selahattin Demirtas of the Human Rights Association in Diyarbakir. "The verdict by the European Court on Ocalan only reinforces the idea [in Turkish minds] that Kurds are to blame," he says. E.U. officials monitoring Turkey's pro-gress toward accession talks say the recent problems are no reason to push the panic button - yet. Once talks start, "we will have real leverage," argues Krisztina Nagy, spokeswoman for Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn. "Nobody said it would be a walk...
...valid arguments against the direct elections. Some council die-hards continue to stress that the UC should not devolve into a separate committee mindset. We disagree. The Harvard student body demands two things from its UC representatives: accountability and enthusiasm. Committees should not be able to blame the entire UC for passing poorly planned expenditures that their members bring before the council. More work needs to be done in committees to vet proposals beforehand. To ensure this level of accountability, UC reps must be fit—both in expertise and inclination—for their committees, which in turn...
...lack of deliberate action doesn't rule out blame attributable to negligence, imprudence or even simple incompetence." SILVIO BERLUSCONI, Italian Prime Minister, in response to a U.S. military investigation exonerating American soldiers in the March shooting death of Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari in Iraq...
...lack of deliberate action doesn't rule out blame attributable to negligence, imprudence or even simple incompetence...