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Throughout Blade: Trinity I marveled over the omnipresent truculence of Wesley Snipes. He swears with authority. He wears an entirely leather jumpsuit and he doesn’t look uncomfortable. His head is half-shaved, half covered with tattoos. When horrendous rap is blaring in the background and he is killing vampires with semi-automatic weapons, he doesn’t even crack a smile...
...security gained even greater importance with administrators after a pair of sexual assaults last winter was traced to Geremias Cruz Ramos, a Holyoke Center custodial employee hired by Sodexho USA, a private contractor. The arrest quickly led to the current policy that requires security and custodial contractors to perform background checks (CORI) on all new employees. Harvard has had a long-standing policy of performing background checks on its own employees...
...website, Allied is the largest American-owned security services company in the country, employing about 37,000 people and serving more than 100 Fortune 500 companies. Each one of their workers goes through an intensive screening process, according to the site, which includes drug screenings, 10year employment background checks, fingerprinting, and a “written honesty evaluation...
...concession to the government, Woodlock said he would allow testimony and evidence which might provide background beyond the specific interpretation of Shleifer’s contract...
...Mormon?" Reid lets slip that he once got into a fistfight with his father-in-law-to-be, an observant Jew who opposed the marriage for religious reasons, and I realize how perfect both portraits are. Reid's story is Twainian, a western desert tall tale, and his background is as brutal and hardscrabble as Jackson's. "I guess it's no secret that both my parents drank heavily," he finally says. "I didn't learn my family values in Searchlight," he adds, referring to the tiny Nevada mining town where his father committed suicide and his mother washed laundry...