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Wagner said that the amount of money this package provides is equal to the funds available in the entire information technology industry on an annual basis...
...sentiments are echoed by advocates who are working to clean up the system. "We are closing Guantánamo, [but] we need an equal amount of attention to the abuses of restraints and excessive use of isolation in the facilities where our nation's children are being held," says Mark Soler, executive director of the Center for Children's Law and Policy, who has spent 30 years litigating against such abuses. Soler argues that only the most violent juvenile offenders really need to be detained - roughly 5% of the more than 90,000 who are currently institutionalized in juvenile correctional...
...That means re-examining some of France's founding principles. President Nicolas Sarkozy, for one, has broken ancient taboos by suggesting France study American-style equal opportunity, quotas and the use of ethnic data within official statistics to get a more accurate picture of the nation's face. "There are two Frances," Arab-French businessman Yazid Sabeg told the daily Libération. "One wants to look things in the face - meaning the way demographics in this country have changed. The other is conservative France, which is prone to immobility in the name of largely artificial equality." (See pictures...
...into place by the stimulus package. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed by Obama on Feb. 17 says banks that have received money from the government's $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Fund are barred from paying cash bonuses to their top executives. They can pay stock bonuses equal to as much as a third of an employee's salary, but the employee is not allowed to sell those shares until the government's money is paid back by their company...
...with the claim that Common Casting typecasts. “In my opinion,” she says, “and we’ve definitely discussed it a lot—it’s a very fair process. Anyone can come audition, and anyone has an equal opportunity to be cast....[The individuals making the casting decisions] go into the show looking for the people they find the most talented. They want their cast to be the strongest possible. There is no other motive there.”As an apparent resolution to this difference in opinions...