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...Reportedly lost 20 pounds while canvassing for her first seat in public office during her 1985 campaign - to join the Rio Hondo Community College Board of Trustees...
There is no doubt that an Obama presidency will mark a suspension of the assault on unionization that started under Ronald Reagan and peaked under George W. Bush. Obama is sure to appoint labor-friendly members to the National Labor Relations Board and begin to undo many of the obstacles Bush constructed. But the big question is how hard he will push for the measure at the top of labor leaders' wish list: the Employee Free Choice Act [EFCA]. During the campaign Obama expressed support for the bill, which would attempt to facilitate union organizing by doing away with secret...
...self-portraits," which reveal them, on the whole, to be addled by pop music, soccer, video games and hanging out in the hood. The emotional climax of the film comes when, angered by the behavior of two of his female students, who sit on a sort of school governing board, he tells them they're acting like "skanks." They deliberately misread his remark - no he didn't actually call them a bad name, which they take to be a synonym for "whores" - but it doesn't matter. There's a classroom confrontation with an African student who rises to their...
...Cupola's sway is thought to have faded in importance under the reign of Salvatore (Toto) Riina in the 1980s, when the bloodthirsty boss of bosses wielded a more autocratic hand. The boss board is believed to have rubber-stamped the 1992 assassinations of Falcone and fellow magistrate Paolo Borsellino, but it was at the insistence of Riina, who would be captured the following year...
...Tuesday's sweep, there was one name missing from the list of those arrested: Matteo Messina Denaro, 46, a bespectacled multiple murderer with a reported weakness for sports cars, remains at large. If the Cupola does return, police say, Messina Denaro would be the unrivaled chairman of the board...