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...task, since few Russian voters will be able to decipher from the draft constitution's 66 pages and 137 articles what parliament's role will be, what procedures it will follow, or how the 450 members of its lower house, the Duma, and the 176 delegates of its upper chamber will coordinate with the executive. No one even knows where the Duma will meet, although one proposed site, on the outskirts of Moscow 10 miles from the Kremlin, suggests the importance the new parliament will command in Yeltsin's estimation...
...harassment, they will be treated exactly the same as any other group discriminated against based on race, religion or national origin." Employers, many of whom have already begun to police their workplaces, for the most part supported the court's decision. Said Stephen Bokat, general counsel for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "This is a very reasonable decision. It is really relatively easy under current law for an employer to preclude a suit for sexual harassment...
Even those calculations do not complete the picture. Some of those who are unemployed may be loath to admit it. Thomas Mooney, president of the Chamber of Commerce in Rochester, New York, is puzzled over why the area's stated jobless rate is below 5% despite brutal payroll slashing by Eastman Kodak, the region's biggest employer. His conclusion: many Kodak workers were not laid off outright but were coaxed or pushed into early retirement, and "an awful lot of those people become consultants. Whether or not they have any clients, I don't know. But if they...
Ruby Lee Gissing (Ashley Judd) is a high-school graduate who leaves her native Tennessee town--a place she claims she was lucky to escape without getting beat up or pregnant--to start a new life in Panama Beach City, Florida. She quickly finds a job selling souvenirs at Chamber's Beach Emporium and has a quick fling with the manager's heartthrob, fast-lane-living son Ricky. Ruby senses immediately that he is just the sort of guy she left Tennessee to escape and quickly regroups to examine her priorities. The film is narrated with excerpts from Ruby...
...making about beauty, truth and wholesomeness. The slow pace of the film and the dialogue is evocative of small-town Southern life. Often the detail is excrutiating. By the end of the film, the audience probably remembers a few too many colorful, tacky items of merchandise for sale at Chamber's. The camera often drags and makes us impatient with this meticulous attention to detail. When we see Mike's library, the camera pauses too long at the bookshelves and overemphasizes the point that pleasure-reading is a new concept for Ruby...