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...California Prop 8 Court Date Same-sex-marriage advocates rejoiced Feb. 2 after the California Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the Nov. 4 ballot measure that reversed the court's previous decision to grant gay and lesbian couples the right to wed; a record $83 million was raised by groups on both sides in the run-up to the vote. The March 5 hearing will also address the validity of 18,000 same-sex marriages that occurred before Prop 8 was passed...
...biggest fallout has happened in cities that are wholly dependent on one big industry, especially steel or autos. In the Urals town of Magnitogorsk, a gigantic steelworks has placed 3,000 workers on forced leave. In Novolipetsk, to the east of Lyudinovo, thousands have been furloughed since Nov. 14, when the steel factory idled two of its blast furnaces. The government estimates that companies laid off about 200,000 workers in December and January, but that's probably an understatement. Yevgeny Gontmakher, an economist who heads the Russian Academy of Sciences' Social Studies Center, expects that Russia's official unemployment...
...weeks, as the stock market cratered and some private Russian banks wobbled, the official Kremlin line was "This is primarily an American issue." Finally, on Nov. 20, Putin admitted that Russia too was in trouble. Announcing a $20 billion economic-stimulus package and an increase in unemployment benefits, he said Russians were asking a "fair question" when they wondered about what was happening. His answer: "We will do everything, everything in our power ... so that the collapses of the past years should never be repeated in our country." Says Alexander Kliment, a Russia analyst at the Eurasia Group...
...state-controlled banks, it is bailing out selected business executives who are having trouble paying their debts--including Oleg Deripaska, a metals tycoon who until recently was Russia's richest man. It is also playing an increasingly intrusive role in the private sector. At a meeting in Moscow on Nov. 25, for example, Igor Shuvalov, Putin's First Deputy Prime Minister, told the nation's major retailers that the Kremlin would ensure they gain access to credit on the condition that they demonstrate "social responsibility" by not raising prices...
...Nov. 2007, the nascent student group, headed by founder Jacqueline E. Stenson ’08, led a preliminary expedition to the Dominican Republic to assess the public health situation in the region...