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...investigating reports that rebels had destroyed camps housing some 50,000 internally displaced people in the town of Rutshuru, about 50 miles north of Goma. "Hundreds of thousands of people who have already suffered far too much are in danger and in desperate need of help," UNHCR High Commissioner Antonio Guterres said on Friday...
That opinion, apparently, is not universally shared. October 31 marks the 30th anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA), which outlawed employment discrimination against women who are Poehler-ized. But the news that pregnant women need to be treated as would any employee with a broken leg or other temporary...
"We would expect that pregnancy bias would be a non-issue by now, 30 years after passage of the PDA," says Christine Nazer, a spokesperson for the EEOC. Yet in 2007, claims hit a record of 5,587, and the commission won nearly $2 million for women who claimed they...
"For reasons known only to these contributors, the traditionally Republican defense sector is supporting a Democratic presidential candidate who may be bad for business," says Massie Ritsch of the independent Center for Responsive Politics, which came up with the numbers after analyzing Federal Election Commission data for the 2008 election...
Spearheading the opposition was Calderon's old nemesis Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a silvery-haired leftist who lost the 2006 presidential election to the conservative by a whisker. Lopez Obrador contended that Calderon had been spuriously placed in power so he could loot Mexico's treasure trove of black gold...