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Established in 1933, SAG arrived at a time when actors were to Hollywood studios what cattle are to ranchers: they were bound to multi-year, exclusive contracts, unable to choose their own films, their own career paths or, in some cases, their own relationships. Actors were essentially the studios' property, and anyone who dared protest - Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland, for example - was suspended, effectively blacklisted for a time. The first SAG-studio contract was signed in 1937, but it was only following the Supreme Court's 1948 anti-trust decision against Paramount Studios, which broke the studio monopoly...
...doing so, the initiative also benefits to non-users through increased health, justice, and law-enforcement expenditures. The crime activity so typical of junkies has declined greatly since the inception of the heroin program. Addicts, by virtue of their addiction, are bound to engage in any sort of behavior, be it healthy or destructive, to obtain their drug of choice. When this drug of choice—heroin in this case—is given to them in controlled doses by the government, the drug-related crime rate drops. Keeping addicts in the program and off the streets has proven...
...military officers are already making clear that many of the additional 20,000 U.S. troops bound for Afghanistan in the coming year won't be headed to the Afghan-Pakistani border, where the Taliban and its al-Qaeda allies are launching regular and deadly attacks against U.S. and allied troops. Instead, they'll be concentrated on defending the capital, Kabul, from Taliban attacks and also on reinforcing British troops in Helmand and other parts of the south. That will do little to assuage the criticism that the limited U.S. and NATO deployments in Afghanistan have left Afghan President Hamid Karzai...
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...clear, study is still a valuable component of an international experience. In fact, study and work are perfect complements. Study enables you to understand the things you see and experience. However, going abroad for the academics alone is bound to be unsatisfying. Therefore, if you might study abroad this summer or next year, look for a program that incorporates work. Or, find an accommodating study program and then find work separately. If you want a formal job then find the work first; you’ll need your employer’s vouching when applying for a work visa...