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...taxpayers in 2006, up from 414,000 in 1995 NAFTA Should the trade pact be modified to add environmental and labor protections? Yes She says these protections should be enforced just like those dealing with commerce Yes A leaked memo implied his stance was "political maneuvering"; Obama denies the claim No Says open markets create economic opportunity UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE Payrolls shrank by 63,000 in February. Should the jobless get more time on assistance? Yes Her stimulus plan would include $10 billion to extend unemployment insurance Yes Would add some part-timers and give a temporary extension to those...
...imprisonment and a $25,000 fine. The Harvard demonstrators were met by a large assembly of union workers, who gathered to show support for Patrick’s beleaguered gaming bill, which would permit three new resort casinos to be built in Massachusetts. Supporters of the ban claim that online poker encourages gambling addiction. Patrick added the provision to his bill to assuage critics who fear that building three casinos in the state will cause a dramatic increase in gambling among residents. Law student Andrew M. Woods, executive director of the GPSTS, characterized the ban as the actions...
...large number of people were submitting op-eds saying this link is bogus, this claim is false, then maybe we would have penetrated the broader media consciousness,” she said...
...Officially, Tibetans are not allowed to organize politically in Nepal or air their anti-China grievances. A series of peaceful protests outside the Chinese embassy and at a United Nations building in Kathmandu over the past week have been broken up, sometimes brutally, by Nepalese police. Activists and journalists claim that, during the embassy protest on March 15, Chinese officials directed the police and also took photos of protestors...
...Express Newspapers group - owner of tabloid papers the Daily Express, the Sunday Express, the Daily Star and the Sunday Star - agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a claim that the papers had defamed them by alleging that the couple themselves were responsible for the death of their 4-year-old daughter. The daily outlets on Wednesday also published page-one apologies to the McCanns, as their Sunday stablemates are expected to do as well, admitting to the "utter falsity" of a series of articles published between late last summer and February...