From The Christian Science Monitor, English is increasingly the language of French businesses: In a recent survey of 26 of France’s largest companies, 16 gave English as their official working language – including Renault, Danone, and Aventis. Of these, nine have dropped French altogether. Seven put English and French on equal footing. The French, of [...]
I’ve been trying to keep up with the responses to last week’s big news about the AFL-CIO split. Kim Scipes’ roundup is by far the most thorough if you want to know what people in the labor movement are saying. Most responses have been fairly negative, suggesting that the split was more about power struggles [...]
What is interesting about this story from the Washington Post isn’t the sheer number of Chinese engaged in (often violent) protests against the state, but that the government is openly discussing the issue: Reflecting the leaders’ concern, the People’s Daily, the main party newspaper, declared in a front-page editorial July 28 that any attempt to [...]