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...consumers. "We believe a Bill of Rights would create inflexible standards that more often than not create greater inconvenience than they do today," Castelveter says. He explains that if planes were forced to return to the gate after four hours, further delays would ensue. To avoid that, airlines would cancel more flights. "Somebody who has a business meeting would much rather wait on the plane - provided they have humane circumstances - then go back to the gate and be further delayed," he says. Even flight attendants, who suffer the brunt of abuse when a plane sits on the tarmac, aren...
...Like many of the soldiers who were forced to cancel long-planned vacations, Howard had to forgo a trip to Disney World with his family. "It was disappointing for everyone," he says. "But my goal was to make it worthwhile. I don't want [the soldiers to go home at 16 months] saying that wasn't worth it. Instead they can say, look at what we achieved in four months...
...famous, rich, old white man picking on a bunch of young, mostly black college women. So it seemed pretty cut-and-dried that his bosses at CBS Radio would suspend his show - half frat party, half political salon for the Beltway elite - for two weeks, and that MSNBC would cancel the TV simulcast. And that Imus would plan to meet with the students he offended. Case closed, justice served, lesson -possibly - learned. Move...
...Every day, pleading overwork, millions of men cancel millions of promises made to millions of children. Dads cannot read bedtime stories or go to the park. Dads are in their offices, or on the road, or on conference calls. The effects of this physical or emotional absenteeism are actually quantifiable: numerous academic studies have shown that children with distant fathers score lower on tests of empathy, reasoning and brain development than those whose fathers are more involved. The former behave more aggressively, don't get on as well with siblings, tend to be less popular in school and are more...
...presidential elections, allowing him to rule until 2010. Instead, his potential successors united, and the resolution was dropped from the agenda. Recently zanu-PF dissidents have been meeting the opposition parties, and have blocked their leader's attempts to call a state of emergency that would allow him to cancel all elections. That means there will be a presidential poll next year. Will Mugabe be the zanu-PF candidate? The very fact that this is a question demonstrates how rapidly his power is ebbing away...