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...would now be free to work on evenings and weekends," she says. "When I wasn't, he began to say that my work wasn't competent." ("Idiot!" read one Post-It note left on her desk.) After being given tasks outside her job description - such as keeping the bathroom stocked with toilet tissue - Truffet-Lefebvre felt "humiliated and very sad" to see much of her responsibility handed to a new assistant. Diagnosed with depression in September 2001, she left the following June after a prolonged period of unpaid sick leave. "I had to stop working there. Otherwise, I would have...
...husband can monitor what their children play. And, needless to say, most youngsters consider regulation unnecessary. Alex Spicer, 16, of Orinda, Calif., says that he plays video games for five hours at a time on weekends and that he and his friends stop only for bathroom breaks. He's a huge fan of Halo 2, in which humans and aliens kill one another with guns, grenades and other weapons. But he says the violence is "not that bad. It's really just for fun." Alex's dad Scott doesn't have a problem with his son playing the game...
...trickiest part? No decision or deal can be approved without a 75% majority of the owners. "Nine guys can prevent you from taking a bathroom break," says Denver's Bowlen. For the NFL's front office, the 75% rule practically demands that any new idea or proposal be absolutely compelling, since it must be embraced by a group of powerful individuals who don't necessarily share the same agenda. "It's not that we all like each other and want to have dinner with each other all the time," says Bowlen. "It does force a clarity of thinking," says Harold...
...building manager’s office with the inscription “Toilet” in Russian. Building manager Ronnie Levesque says the door is not a statement of the political leanings of the “People’s House.” The locked bathroom used to be labeled in English, he says, but in an attempt to dissuade people from asking to use it, a friend who spoke Russian helped him change the sign to a more cryptic message. “I did it as a joke,” Levesque says...
...spend an evening.” The danger that alcohol presents to students in a bustling city campus has many manifestations. The inherent hazards of drinking large quantities of alcohol are obvious to any of us who have held back a roommate’s hair in our suite bathroom at three in the morning, and more obvious still to those of us who have had our hair held back, or perhaps even been a guest at University Health Services for a weekend night. The less obvious, though still largely publicized, risks are especially serious for females, with sexual assault...