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Although the ruling was against a public institution, private schools are not exempt from the law. Current federal statutes stipulate that any university receiving federal money must abide by the Constitution and hence federal court rulings...
...full 10-member committee seconded the decision. Of the four new charges they decided to pursue, the most serious one asks whether the Speaker gave investigators "accurate, reliable and complete information"--meaning, did he lie to them?--about the tangled links between his videotaped college course, the tax-exempt foundation that developed it, and GOPAC, his political operation. The questions boil down to whether he used tax-exempt donations to support a political undertaking. Although Gingrich insists the charges are groundless, the action guaranteed that the case will dog him beyond the election, whether or not he returns as Speaker...
While managers and staff are known as "exempt" employees, meaning both receive salaries rather than hourly wages, Carnesale protested that the report "lumped these [categories of employees] together...
...Harvard's] definition of exempt versus non-exempt does not correspond to administrative or non-administrative," Carnesale said...
...emotional distress and other noneconomic injuries as long as those injuries don't result from what is referred to as "substantial physical injury." Several Senators have threatened to filibuster the final bill if it contains the provision when it emerges from conference committee. Most cruise lines are already exempt from many U.S. regulations. Carnival founder Ted Arison--a billionaire who gave $100,000 to the G.O.P. in 1988--renounced his U.S. citizenship in 1993, thereby escaping U.S. estate taxes...