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Mark Mother’s Day by Reforming Family Leave Laws in US
Diana T. worked full-time for a large retail store in the US when she became pregnant. Her manager was unhappy about her pregnancy and about Diana’s six-week unpaid maternity leave. Her employer refused to pay her accrued sick time during leave. Diana’s baby was born with asthma, and doctors suspected she had cystic fibrosis. Diana had severe post-partum depression. Diana’s ...
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Bahrains Rights Britains Failure
, claimed that "so-called human rights organisations" are "largely administered by ex-ideologists and even terrorists". It continued: "As much as beasts cannot be left to roam freely, so in human society the feral element’s freedom should be under control." In fact, it is well documented ...
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Editorial Another week another bout of Conservative Party in-fighting
David Cameron was in a tricky enough spot last week, forced to pretend it was, if not desirable, then at least acceptable that more than 100 obstreperous backbenchers voted their "regret" at his Government's legislative programme. Between the high-profile grandees (Lord Lawson, Michael Portillo) and the existing cabinet ministers (Michael Gove, Philip Hammond) all voicing their ...
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Live wisely taste the sweetness
One lives a superficial life and hence one is in chaos. Most people live life on the periphery and hence the sweetness at the depth -- wise living -- is never tasted. This is the sad part of ...
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Editorial Push needed to hold mass appeal events
The staging of a Volvo Ocean Race stopover, a world triathlon championship and the V8 Supercars at Pukekohe have made Auckland a more vibrant city. Photo / Greg BowkerSometimes it takes an outside eye to reveal the full extent of a change in circumstance. So it was with the report by Britain's SportBusiness Group which showed Auckland had overtaken Sydney as a host of premier sporting events in ...
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BOOK REVIEW College Unbound
Jeffrey Selingo New Harvest, $26, 256 pagesIt’s not hard to see that the $490 billion higher-education industry is failing America. One study showed that only 45 percent of students demonstrate any cognitive gains by the middle of their sophomore year. Only about 50 percent of students enrolling in a four-year college graduate within six years. Yet more students are enrolled than ...
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Bob Schieffer on dumb and dumber in Washington
(CBS News) When the burglars broke into Democratic Headquarters at the Watergate, a lot of us back then found it hard to believe. Why would anyone break into a political headquarters? What did they hope to find? Bumper stickers? Yard signs? Nobody is dumb enough to pull a stunt like that. But they were! I admit I had about the same reaction when I first heard the IRS had gone after the ...
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Tsarnaev Brothers and Americas Enemy Within
To learn more about the Tsarnaev brothers, better known as "the Boston bombers," we can dig into their family histories in strife-torn Dagestan, or examine, once again, the lethal appeal of Islamist radicalism. But I doubt that this would be enlightening. The elder brother, Tamerlan, who died in a gun battle with the police, appears to fit perfectly the profile of what the German ...
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Why Modern Growth Leads to So Much Depression
Since the 2008 financial crisis, most industrial economies have avoided anything like the collapse that occurred during the Great Depression of the 1930s. But despite large-scale fiscal and monetary stimulus, they are not experiencing any dramatic economic rebound. Moreover, the pre-crisis trend of rising income and wealth inequality is continuing in marked contrast to the post-Great Depression ...
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What I Learned About Russians as an Au Pair
Peoples' first question when they hear that I've just returned from a winter in Moscow is usually: "What on earth drove you to go there?" The answer is not an easy one. I landed at Sheremetyevo Airport in January with dreams of balalaikas, samovars and golden domed churches. It did not take me long to realize that living in Moscow was less about folklore and literary ...
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Endorsements recap The Times recommends
Many will no doubt be tempted to sit this one out. Voters show up at the polls when they are convinced that the election will make a difference in their lives, and in this campaign, the candidates have done little to differentiate themselves or to demonstrate why the city would be better off with them than without them in charge. Both are liberal Democrats whose records show too much ...
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From the International Herald Tribune 100 75 50 Years Ago
1913 America Losing Trade in China PEKING ...
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Ghost Ships Murders Bird Attacks Stories To Keep You Awake
The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories. I'd seen the movies before reading the stories -- Nicolas Roeg's masterful version of "Don't Look Now" featuring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie; and Alfred Hitchcock's strangely flat-footed and clunky version of "The Birds" -- so I thought I knew what to expect from Daphne du Maurier's fiction. I was, in ...
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China growth to halve
Beijing-based economist Michael Pettis has carved out through his "China Financial Markets" blog a distinct position with his commentaries on the Chinese economy, notably with his consideration of the difficulties it faces with its necessary rebalancing towards a more consumption-based model. Asia Times Online here draws the attention of Pettis' latest insightful analysis to a ...
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WLOX Editorial Prepare South Mississippi
Life through the eyes of a child is often thought to be innocent and colorful. But, that life isn't the same experience for kids who are blind and visually impaired. That's why every year, ...
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Letter Death camp contrast Why the silence on Soviet Union camps
Nazi Germany ended in military defeat in 1945. The Soviet Union ended in political collapse in 1991. Both nations used concentration camps that resulted in the deaths of millions. Few camps in the USSR were designed to be actual death camps, but the same millions died from 1918 to about 1960. They were victims of cold, hunger, disease and also bullets. Both camp systems required staffing in the ...
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Letter Investigate all levels from Swallow to the Obama administration
It's not often I agree with columnist Richard Davis, but I concur with the BYU professor regarding the need for Utah Attorney General John Swallow to be the subject of a special investigation or even impeached ("Cloud over Swallow needs to be resolved soon," May 15). There is enough smoke swirling around the embattled official to reasonably believe there is also some fire that ...
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Letter Labeling all exotic animals as dangerous is extreme
Thomas Cobb's unique collection of 29 snakes, which is kept in a special room in his Cottonwood Heights basement, is in jeopardy. He has been cited for failing to have an exotic pet permit and given one week to get rid of all but one snake. He has spent more than two decades amassing his private collection and prides himself in being a good snake owner. Each snake costs about ...
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Robin Abcarian Military sexual assaults were supposed to end
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, gestures as he speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon, Friday, May 17, 2013, to discuss sexual assaults in the military and the promotion of Lt. Gen. Curtis "Mike" Scaparrotti to command U.S. troops in South Korea, among other ...
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George F. Will President Obamas new second-term agenda Building trust
President Barack Obama speaks on the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday May 15, 2013. Obama announced the resignation of Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, the top official at the ...
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Charles Krauthammer Americans deserve the facts not conditional truth
WASHINGTON — Note to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-Contra, bigger than both, etc. First, it might well be, but we don't know. History will judge. Second, overhyping will only diminish the importance of the scandal if it doesn't meet presidency-breaking standards. Third, focusing on the political effects simply plays into the hands of Democrats desperately ...
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Matthew Spalding Patriotic Americans should redouble their efforts
Across this great land, patriotic Americans are behaving subversively. We're quoting from our pocket Constitutions, starting reading groups to discuss our founding documents, even gathering together to "petition the government for a redress of grievances." Uncle Sam is not ...
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Don Kusler No the Affordable Care Act will not affect doctors
In this March 28, 2012 file photo, supporters of health care reform rally in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on the final day of arguments regarding the health care law signed by President Barack ...
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Minnesota Legislature Growing government Pioneer Press editorial
With political control in the hands of one party for the first time in decades, Minnesotans had a historic legislative session in store. Democrats delivered that. "If you were going to design a session with a goal to push businesses out of Minnesota and create disincentives for new business to come here, they succeeded in doing that," said Charlie Weaver, executive director of the ...
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In our opinion Frances B. Monsons unwavering legacy of service
President Thomas S. Monson and his wife, Frances, wave to the crowd after the Sunday morning session of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 181st Annual General Conference Sunday, April 3, 2011, in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Tom Smart, Deseret ...
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