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...L.A.P.D. and the district attorney's office, needless to say, don't want a Simpson-like case--especially now. The L.A.P.D. has been in turmoil since the city council voted last week not to extend Chief Bernard Parks' contract. Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn says Parks is being pushed out partly because of rising crime rates. Parks, the most prominent African American in city government in L.A., says the reason is dirty politics...
...quantities, Botox merely interrupts nerve impulses to muscles in the face. The lines that furrow the forehead when you raise your eyebrows, the crow's feet that appear when you squint and the creases between the eyebrows when you frown are all caused by tension in underlying muscles, which contract and squeeze the skin like an accordion. Botox keeps this from happening...
...lack of an) Italian Job Francesco Bruno has given up hope of ever finding a permanent job. The best the 30-year-old university graduate says he can expect is a call back from Alitalia for another short-term contract as a flight attendant. "I see myself as a permanent temporary worker," says Bruno, who asked that his real name not be used for fear of jeopardizing his standing with the airline. With Europe's ongoing push to create a job market with U.S.-style flexibility, such employment uncertainty is becoming common. Eurostat reports that the number of workers...
...itself with the finances of factories, with their competitiveness, with Germany as a location for doing business, with the unemployed looking for jobs or even with those who are about to become jobless." IG Metall's power lies in its ability to negotiate a one-size-fits-all labor contract for the entire country. The current talks in Baden-Württemburg will eventually lead to a pilot contract, which will then be applied to employees in other regions covered by metalworkers' contracts. The average metalworker already earns about $2,500 a month, works a 35-hour week...
...five-person crew went down to Cape Cod to film his screenplay of Angel Walk. They had a cast that included Harvard students and some members of the Screen Actors’ Guild (SAG). The Screen Actors’ Guild has what they call a “Student Contract,” which allows student films to pay less than scale for actors. In the case of Angel Walk, this meant paying them nothing, since Lawler was personally responsible for all the costs associated with Angel Walk. He nearly bankrupted himself paying for it, in what became a theme...