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...woman," Garcia says, sitting in the shade of a wooden hut under the glare of rugged hilltops. In the ancient tradition, he explains, the suitor negotiates the marriage with the family through a so-called ambassador. After a deal has been struck, the suitor then goes to meet and collect the bride at 2 a.m. on a Wednesday morning. Local custom also permits polygamy, and some men in the Triqui region have up to seven wives...
...union has shut down the "jobs banks" that allowed idled workers to collect pay indefinitely after they exhausted other unemployment benefits. But the UAW is balking at any deeper cuts that might jeopardize the generous supplemental unemployment benefits that union members have gotten for more than half a century on top of state benefits...
...seriously,” but adding that it would be inappropriate to remark on specific personnel issues. Undergraduates learned about the anti-gay remarks from an e-mail sent to the Adams House open list on Tuesday by openly gay Adams House cook William D. Nicolson. Nicolson sought to collect gay pride items and pass them out to students to wear in the dining halls. “There’s absolutely nothing wrong with being proud of who you are,” Nicolson said. Yesterday, Nicolson affixed a black pin with the word “pride?...
City officials estimate that they could collect more money than is provided by the PILOTs if non-profits paid taxes...
...licensing fee. Consumer groups accuse European politicians of swooning for the handful of crooners currently lobbying for copyright extension. French singer Johnny Hallyday - a close friend of French President Nicolas Sarkozy - and the British pop legend Cliff Richard have run high-profile campaigns in the hope of continuing to collect royalties on recordings of songs they released in the 1950s. "Copyright is an economic instrument, not a moral one," Andrew Gowers, author of a 2006 British-government-funded study of intellectual-property laws and a proponent of shorter copyright terms, recently said. "Consumers find themselves paying more for old works...