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...extensive delays in holding such elections. "Gould's proposal eliminates the politically most potent argument against the Employee Free Choice Act, that secret-ballot elections supposedly better represent the true preferences of employees than do signed union authorization cards," says Gregory Saltzman, professor of economics and labor management at Albion College in Michigan...
...British media, there is no fault worse than to be a sanctimonious "Creeping Jesus." During Blair's time in office, the satirical magazine Private Eye ran a regular (and very funny) column in the form of a parish newsletter, with Blair cast as the cloyingly earnest vicar of St. Albion church. Over the years, I have been struck by the vehement unwillingness of people in Britain to accept that Blair's faith is genuine or that it might provide genuine insights into our global condition. His religiosity was "incomprehensible," one well-known intellectual sniffed recently; I have heard Blair...
...Power forgets Australia. One of our precious boys died in action there last week. Considering we should never have been there in the first place, perhaps Canada, along with Australia, should move out, and soon. Peter Jones, Albion, Victoria...
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...then their eponymous “The Libertines”—offered Americans a raw, exciting view into a drug-addled cockney underground where Sid Vicious still swaggered? If you do, you better not to listen to Babyshambles’ “Down In Albion.” It’s not that it’s a terrible album. It’s more that every song from Doherty’s new band sounds like a half-hearted Libertines imitation, a painful attempt to revisit the successful past. Doherty himself has fallen fast...