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...other points of contention he brought against Boeing. Though the jury agreed that Gibbs’ complaints of racial discrimination had improperly led to his firing, they did not find that Gibbs’ court allegation of racial discrimination was itself founded. In addition, the jury did not accept Gibbs’ argument that Boeing employed defamatory tactics against...
...relatives elsewhere in the Diaspora. "Go back to Israel" was a message I heard occasionally growing up, both from Zionist emissaries promoting immigration and from rightwing anti-Semites hostile to my anti-apartheid views, which they somehow mistook to be uniquely Jewish. Unlike Sharon, I can't accept that fighting anti-Semitism in France is futile, because I believe that a Jew's place is anywhere he or she chooses to live...
...goalwards or else into the path of a supporting forward who could shoot past the keeper. It was an approach that rewarded hard work, physicality, finishing ability (creating a goal out of a pass into the area that eluded the defense) and bottle (physical courage and a refusal to accept defeat...
...view is shared by 55% of those who described themselves as independents. Brenda Keen, 49, a business manager for a University of Georgia literary journal, says Kerry's concern for the middle class is a big factor in winning her vote. "It's a struggle to have what's accepted as a middle-class American lifestyle," she says. Keen, the single mother of a 10-year-old, worries that even with a 3% raise--her first raise in two years--to her $36,000 salary, meeting the rising interest rates on a $3,000 home-repair loan will...
...have to accept we haven't found them and we may not find them." BRITISH PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR, stalwart defender of the war in Iraq, on the failure to locate any weapons of mass destruction...