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...figures: August same-store sales declined 29%. In 2004, the EEOC sued Abercrombie for limiting its hiring of minorities; that case was settled for $50 million. A British woman sued the company for discrimination after Abercrombie's management allegedly shunted her to the stockroom for wearing a cardigan to cover her prosthetic arm. In August, a tribunal awarded her nearly $15,000. The EEOC has also sued Hollister, a teen retailer owned by Abercrombie, for allegedly firing a Pentecostal worker who asked to dress more modestly. That case is still pending...
Supermarket shoppers perusing the publication rack must have felt a dose of Weltschmerz as they waited for their frozen peas to be scanned. “Is God Dead?” read the Apr. 8, 1966, cover of Time Magazine, rendering the question in red typeface on a stark black background. The Nietzschean challenge emerged in the context of an immense cultural despair. Faced with a world so complex, so seemingly contradictory, a vocal group of American theologians—described in the magazine’s lead story—was seeking to radically re-envision a Christianity...
...funding to Chilean students at several foreign universities, including Harvard. The new agreement will provide fellowships for about 30 additional students, as well as funding to support their families. If a student’s spouse is admitted to Harvard, he or she would also receive a fellowship to cover educational expenses. As Harvard students hail from over 120 countries, Dominguez said that the University is redoubling its efforts to obtain necessary funding to support international students. Currently, Harvard has entered into fellowship or scholarship agreements with 18 countries, including Chile. “We want to make it possible...
...game raises its stakes as you sit down to eat. According to tradition (invented right now), you have to dive for cover if someone sneezes in the beverage area. If this happens in the food line, for an extra point, a player can simply turn his head and no-look point to an H1N1 sign. The most difficult maneuver in the game, attempted and unconverted in one try so far, is to read HUDS’s on-table signs about swine-flu risks and then successfully mention “the crook of the elbow” in conversation...
...premature swoop on the Zazis and Afzali has left the FBI scrambling to gather evidence of a terrorism plot, according to some reports. Afzali's lawyer has denied that his client spilled the beans to the Zazis and has accused the FBI of pursuing Afzali to cover up for its mishandling of the case...