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...passes the next legislative hurdles, it would effectively amend an existing labor law and give private employees a right many public workers have had since 1938. Under the legislation, each hour of overtime worked would equal 1/1/2 hours of paid time off with regular pay. Employees would have to consent to the comp time option and employers would have the right to not offer it. While the bill had strong GOP backing in the House, most Democrats and union leaders were against it from the start. The chief concern was that employers may be tempted to abuse...
...make their own choices in marriage. One of the three judges said the marriage should be annulled. Another said it was legal. The third came out somewhere in the m iddle, saying women normally need their parents' permission to marry, but that Waheed's parents gave their tacit consent by allowing the man who would become their daughter's husband into their home...
...visual element worked particularly well in the sequence in which Martha's son takes over her house without her knowledge or consent. Even without dialogue, the sense of pain and frustration is evident in Lee's depiction of Martha's defeated spirit. Ulrich's voice-overs also serve to acknowledge those gaps in information that may prevent the audience from sharing an emotional immediacy with the characters...
...1980s. With many of its members now in jail or dead, the group is little more than a memory of a time when terrorist hijackings were common. Since little happens in Syrian-controlled Lebanon without the approval of Damascus, chances are the arrests were carried out with Syria's consent -- perhaps as a goodwill token from President Hafez Assad. Among the five Japanese and two Lebanese suspects arrested is Kozo Okamoto, who was sentenced to life in prison after the Lod bombing, but later released in a prisoner exchange between Israelis and Palestinians...
Certainly, difference is inevitable. I am not trying to paint a rosy picture in which we are all the same and all equal. My point is simply that the difference being established through institutionalization and under the consent of the great American system is creating a rift that I fear will never be mended...