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...teachers' union to recruit and retain good teachers. Since February, however, union and district leaders have been butting heads over a series of changes to ProComp proposed by superintendent Michael Bennet. The biggest sticking point is his proposal to cap base salaries while increasing performance-based bonuses. The protracted contract negotiations already led some teachers to stage sick-outs in May; others have been handing out to parents flyers denouncing the district's contract offer as school kicks off this week. And if the two sides can't resolve their differences in mediation talks, scheduled to begin Wednesday, the teachers...
...eight oil projects on offer to outside companies chiefly involve refurbishing and developing various oil and gas fields in southern Iraq. American and Iraqi officials say the projects can go forward without passage of a long-delayed national oil law, as long as each contract individually is approved by the Iraqi government and endorsed by the parliament...
...process, they've become tabloid stars. In one episode Lauren asks Whitney if she went out last night, and Whitney says, "No, actually, I took the night off." It's a figure of speech, but not entirely: their social lives are their jobs. (The tabs unearthed a contract in which Audrina was paid $10,000 to go to a nightclub for two hours...
...Resistance stretching goes deep into the joints and grabs more muscle fibers to increase strength and flexibility," says Sierra's partner, Anne Tierney. "It takes twice as much force to stretch a muscle as it does to contract it." I'm not convinced yet, but after the two guide me through a few exercises--they stretch Torres three times a week, often at her home in Parkland, Fla., as well as before and after every race--my muscles do start to feel more energized. I can see why Torres likes to be worked on half an hour before she swims...
This isn't the first media firestorm to provoke speculation about whether the controversial Commissioner may be forced out of his job before his contract expires in 2010. In July 2005, Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian living in London, was mistaken by police marksmen for a suicide bomber and shot to death at Stockwell Underground station. The tragic bungle came 15 days after terror attacks in the capital killed 52 people and the morning after a second, failed bombing attempt. The shooting has already been the subject of two reports by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which found...