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...with it. The problem is that the country's trade unions are as ferociously committed to defending it as an entitlement, leaving the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy appearing to speak from both sides of its mouth on the politically-charged issue. And amid the cacophony and confusion, employees remain suspicious that the government is seeking to extend the working week by stealth...
Today, Pisani finds that fund raisers, donors and government officials remain hesitant to discuss the nitty-gritty details of AIDS transmission - details of sharing needles, gay cruising and the sex trade. Pisani's book lays out the relevant science. It explains, for example, why regular sex with the same five partners is riskier than 10 successive monogamous relationships, and why sharing needles is more dangerous than almost any kind of sexual activity...
...Have Our Role to PlayEven in the most chaotic moments, our social relationships remain largely intact. That cohesion can have positive and negative consequences, but it helps to know what to expect...
...America we believe in redemption and even self-reinvention. And we don't usually require stagy Stalinesque recantations. But Dohrn and Ayers test the limits of that generosity. They remain spectacularly unrepentant, self-indulgent, unreflective--still bloated with a sense of entitlement, still smug with certainty. They are dead to irony. Dohrn declared her contempt for the judicial system but wanted into the bar association. The two of them encourage young people to "be outraged...
...Despite the groundswell of support, some Iranian insiders believe that Larijani will ultimately prefer to remain as parliament speaker rather than risk losing to Ahmadinejad in the '09 race. "He may see that he has little chance of being elected President, and that it's better to exercise influence as the head of one of the branches of government," a Tehran analyst told TIME. More an intellectual than a politician - he wrote a doctoral thesis on German philosophy - Larijani finished near the bottom in the 2005 multi-candidate election that brought Ahmadinejad to power...