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...easy to forget that in the mid-1980s it was the right that felt abused and ignored on the airwaves. In 1985, North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms launched a campaign to get 1 million conservatives to buy 20 shares of stock in CBS each and "become Dan Rather's boss." Conservatives still argue--garnering huge and sympathetic audiences in the process--that the traditional media giants lean left. But these days, that familiar spiel is done more for rhetorical effect. Conservatives know their power in talk radio, cable television and publishing, and they exult in it. Democratic Senator Byron...
...northern Tikrit where he sought refuge early last week, Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti, the fourth-most-wanted man in Iraq, had a panorama on a life come undone. To the south he could make out the sprawling family farmlands where he used to spend weekends with his boss and cousin, Saddam Hussein. A few miles up the road stood the ex-regime's garish presidential palaces, now occupied by soldiers of the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division. And to the north Mahmud could survey the open desert plains just beyond the city and ponder how to make...
...weeks into the war in Iraq, the maid realized something was up when her boss, Saddam Hussein's nephew, told her to bone up on a Tikriti accent so that she wouldn't attract attention as a Baghdadi when the family moved north. Two days later, she says, she found herself in a convoy of cars with Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay, headed for a rendezvous in Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, with the Iraqi dictator. The 18-year-old woman, who spoke to TIME on condition of anonymity, was a live-in employee of Farhan Ibrahim Migdal al-Dolaymi...
...agreement that was reached between Marlene Soprani and ACME/Pioneer Janitorial Services stipulates dismissal of the complaint, the rehiring of Soprani and her transfer away from her previous boss, according to both ACME/Pioneer Vice President Frank Gello and Aaron Bartley, an organizer for Service Employees International Union Local 254 who represented Soprani...
...complaint filed with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination on April 4, Soprani had alleged that she was told a job she applied for was “more for a man” by her boss at the time, ACME/Pioneer manager Carlos Da Silva. She also charged that he later publicly humiliated her for her interest...