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...your next job. HR managers themselves like to think of it this way. So call a few recruiters and ask how long they think it will take a person with your experience to land a new gig. If it's longer than your severance will last, make the case that you should be compensated for the entire time period. One tactic Barbara Barra, executive vice president at Lee Hecht Harrison, has noticed: suggesting that your company extend severance pay by a few months but agreeing to cut it off early if you get a new job in the interim...
...case of the so-called Octomom continues to spur outrage and debate over the use of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the U.S., new research suggests that the most effective and inexpensive IVF method may also be the least likely to result in dangerous multiple births...
...alternative ideals of genuine community and sisterhood, which can only be realized through a baseline level of consensus. Yet, if these tensions are an inevitable component of the representational politics of feminism, perhaps the best that feminists can do is ensure the unencumbered expression of each ideal. In this case, feminists should accept that sexualized images in Rolling Stone and other media outlets, while certainly not neutral, are neither innately empowering nor disempowering. The prerogative to make that distinction lies only with the female subject herself...
Lynch's attorney, Reuven Cohen, a deputy federal defender, said, "The bottom line is this: If this case were brought today, Charlie would not be prosecuted, period. And anyone who says otherwise is either completely lying or does not know the truth or the facts. If the people at main justice are provided with full and accurate information, they will dismiss this case. If they are serious about what [Holder] said - in other words, that someone had to be in violation of federal and state law - then they will dismiss the case." (Read "An American Pastime: Smoking...
...what happens with Lynch will be a bellwether for other individuals facing charges related to medical marijuana. "All of these people are in a wild state of flux that Mr. Holder and Mr. Obama have placed them in," says Allen St. Pierre, executive director of NORML. "[Lynch] is the case that will probably inform society where we're going to go on this because he got arrested under the Bush Administration. He was a Main Street medical distributor who enjoyed the support of the town council, the mayor - quintessential local acceptance. His case has been caught up for months...