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...clear that there was no real bargaining going on; three months later an e-mail arrived to confirm that another bogus KKB had been signed with no meaningful improvements...
...ensued, and someone eventually pointed out that Rhode Island has a law against anti-gay discrimination. The local Scout council issued a statement offering the kid the job. But when the men at Scout headquarters heard about the controversy, they had spokesman Gregg Shields confirm that the boy can't be a scout if he is gay. The local council quickly backtracked, reaching an uneasy compromise with headquarters: the boy kept the job--and his scouting membership--but he had to agree not to talk about being gay. Since then, the United Way and other funders have been under pressure...
Since January, HUPD has required officers to respond to and confirm every alarm--even if it resets immediately or someone calls in to say they set if off accidentally...
...Police confirm that it has been many years since the alarms discovered any criminal activity. In the most recent case, an alarm on the basement tunnel doors of the Center for European Studies resulted in police discovering a breaking-and-entering in progress...
...their joint editorial announcing the findings of PAGE, the heads of the World Bank, the U.N. Development Program, the U.N. Environment Program and the World Resources Institute confirm their "commitment to making the viability of the world's ecosystems a critical development priority for the 21st century." These are sweeping words, but the jury on this commitment will be composed of the world's ecosystems. The planet itself will let us know, in the harshest possible manner, if our words are not being backed by action...