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...students in Cambridge prepared for midterms, finished theses, and confirmed spring break plans, 16 Harvard students studying abroad in France found themselves in the middle of a riot-torn nation at the center of international media attention. Hundreds of thousands of French students have been occupying university campuses, on strike from classes, in protest of a new labor law, known as the Contrat Première Embauche. The law will allow employers to fire workers under 26 within a two-year trial period without advance notice. People opposed to the law fear it will worsen the already bleak job market...
...veins around the clock. It was during this period that he came to my office, told me his story and asked if I could do anything about his limp. He had a painful knee. "You have all this going on and you want me to take out a torn cartilage in your knee?" I asked him. I was a little incredulous - torn cartilages don't hurt that much, especially if you're not active...
...supreme leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, to blame the U.S. for Iraq's current troubles while his agents are busy there. Iran's militant regime is sowing chaos in the Middle East as it goes flat out to develop nuclear weapons. It needs a distracted West and a war-torn Iraq to accomplish that goal. The sooner we face that reality, the more rational our analysis will be. Tom Minchin Melbourne, Australia What even the ordinary man in the street foresaw before the Bush Administration started its war has at last come true: a country that the dictator Saddam held together...
...move wasn’t universally popular across the system. For instance, a senior history major at the system’s Davis campus wrote in a column for the UC-Berkeley student newspaper, the Daily Californian, that divestment would divert funds from reconstruction efforts in the war-torn country...
...consider that the worst repressor of individual freedom in the Middle East--Iran--is still busy fomenting strife among its neighbors. Iran's militant regime is sowing chaos in the Middle East as it goes flat out to develop nuclear weapons. It needs a distracted West and a war-torn Iraq to accomplish that goal...