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...Bill Jaeger, director of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, said that the City’s resolution was particularly timely since the window to accept the University’s early retirement package is closing and budget officials will likely be re-visiting their fiscal plans soon. HUCTW recently implemented a visibility campaign titled “Staff, Not Stuff” encouraging the University to focus on “slowing down and scaling back construction projects; reducing consulting, outside catering, and travel budgets; and investing in energy conservation and employee wellness,” rather...
...like a 2-year-old having a temper tantrum. Utter a few reassuring words: "Today's vote rightly reflects the outrage that so many feel over the lavish bonuses AIG provided its employees at the expense of taxpayers," Obama said in a statement Thursday after the House passed a bill to tax back 90% of the bonuses - a bill he later effectively came out against. It may also be necessary to make sure they don't hurt themselves, as Obama did by slowing any momentum on the Senate bonus bill when he expressed doubts about the approach on 60 Minutes...
Slowly, Cape Town's scene is showing signs of new life. This year, for example, marks the 10th anniversary of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival, which is fast gaining global renown. Scheduled for April 3-4, it now has more local artists than ever on the bill...
...spat, which will at least give Secretary of State Hillary Clinton something other than drug gangs to discuss during her visit to Mexico on Wednesday and Thursday, was kicked off when President Barack Obama signed a spending bill on March 11. Embedded in the bill was a clause that prohibits funds from being used to "implement, continue, promote or in any way permit" a two-year-old pilot program that allowed some Mexican trucks to operate in the U.S. Pressure for the clause had come directly from the Teamsters, who have long opposed competition from the Mexican 18-wheelers...
...along the border at least, the plan is being largely applauded by law-enforcement officials who feel their region was neglected during both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush presidencies. "This was a long time coming," says Richard Wiles, the Democratic sheriff of El Paso County, Texas, which sits across the Rio Grande from Juárez, Mexico - a city that has seen almost 2,000 drug-related murders since the start of 2008, with many of the victims being police officers, not to mention the epidemic of kidnappings and extortion. (Nationwide, Mexico had almost 7,000 narco-killings...