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...organization was founded only a year ago, and some consider this a drawback as well. In fact, on both counts the WRC has made considerable progress: It was incorporated earlier this month, which should dispel viability concerns, and it changed the structure of its governing board to include equal representation among students, administrators and sweatshop experts. In addition, the WRC is in constant contact with the corporations it monitors. It would represent a clear conflict of interest to give those corporations a direct role in the WRC's governance...
...cost, Bush will have to cut benefits. If the market continues its historical rate of return of 7% a year (or even if it gains a more modest 5% a year), such cuts would be painless because the private-account nest egg for most future beneficiaries would more than equal the benefits they would receive under the current system. But there's no benefit floor to protect losers...
...EQUAL WORK Married couples who live together before the wedding share household chores more evenly than couples who don't cohabit before tying the knot--at least in Australia. A study at the University of Queensland found that married couples use a more traditional division of labor, with the woman doing the housework and the man taking on the more manly outdoor tasks. Cohabiting couples, however, tend to have a more egalitarian and liberal arrangement, and many of those patterns carry over into the marriage...
...been a soldier, a reporter, a farmer and a divinity student. And 24 years ago, I decided to become a public servant. And ever since then, I have dedicated my life to a certain set of ideals. That democracy is something sacred. That under it, all men are created equal. And that America is the land of opportunity...
...with the industry lobbyists, and yes, sometimes even with the Republicans - I'll be fighting a war of ideas. Politicians can be hard to look at sometimes, but we're just men and women with a job to do, and different ideas about how to preserve the fairness and equal opportunity on which this country was built...