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...Sabena sought protection from creditors. On Nov. 7, the president of the Brussels commercial tribunal declared Sabena bankrupt. "Until the last day we believed it would be impossible for Sabena to go bankrupt," says Karel Gacoms, a leader of the powerful metalworkers' union, who acknowledges that labor bears some blame for the collapse. But the post-Sept.11 downturn didn't kill Sabena. Corporate misconduct did. As the commission has dug into company files, it has unearthed troubling details about a range of decisions, most notably the Airbus deal. Sabena was a longtime Boeing customer and a group inside Sabena...
...where it began. But economists aren't laughing, because the E.U.'s biggest economy is also among its sickest: 3.94 million unemployed workers are draining government coffers, the GDP will grow only .5-.75% this year and the budget deficit will bust the E.U.'s 3% limit. Business leaders blame high taxes, expensive welfare programs and rigid labor laws, but the government seems to have learned nothing. "The [plan's] only really specific measures are tax increases," says Commerzbank economist Ralph Solveen. The agreement would cut barely €3 billion of Germany's nearly €150 billion in state subsidies...
...agenda of reform moves to local school districts, it has become clear that the debate there is far from polarized. Vouchers and school choice do not cut along clean party lines. Nor can we blame white suburbanites for stymieing voucher programs in order to maintain demographic hegemony of their schools. By contrast, today’s alliances are nuanced and dynamic: black leaders, for example, increasingly see vouchers as a means of integration and opportunity, displacing a longstanding fear of socioeconomic segregation. The current confusion about the effects of school choice still preclude mass political support for any one form...
...Hell ($8.50) with habañero sausage and oil-pickled chili peppers, at seven bombs the hottest dish on the menu, they laughed in glee. “When you eat it,” cackled the chef closest to my table, “don’t blame...
...wide receiver Keith Ferguson, refusing to blame the dismal weather for his dropped passes