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...know what I did. And I know that the motivations for the decisions I made were not based on improper reasons.' ALBERTO GONZALES, U.S. Attorney General, seeking to explain his role in the Justice Department's controversial firing of eight U.S. Attorneys
...This may explain the varying degrees of success Asian companies have had with programs aimed at fathers. In Japan, cosmetics firm Shiseido introduced an enlightened scheme in April 2005 whereby employees with children under 3 are offered a one-time benefit of an additional two weeks of paid leave. Since the scheme's adoption, says spokesman Tatsuyoshi Endo, only 28 men have taken advantage of the offer. (At Shiseido's Tokyo head office 1,780 of the 3,300 employees are men, but the firm doesn't keep a tally of how many are fathers). Other companies are offering similarly...
...general, parkour enthusiasts tend to respect authority and if told to stop climbing on a wall will nod and move along. Some try to explain to campus cops exactly what it is they're up to. Students at Maryland's McDaniel College told its campus safety director, Michael Webster, how much planning goes into what he remembers their calling "architectural acrobatics," and they stressed that they wouldn't "create an unnecessarily large amount of first-aid calls." Their entreaty worked. Today Webster says there is no official prohibition against parkour. Other schools seem caught between safety concerns and not wanting...
...Katine said he hopes the muddied waters can be cleared up by the U.S. Supreme Court soon. "I really hope that the Court will take an issue and explain what they really meant...
...Cubism (Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp served as camoufleurs) were a huge influence, as were the visual disruptions of Vorticism in the Dazzle patterns applied to Allied ships during World War I. Dazzle made it hard for the enemy to get a fix - a trait that could also help explain the rebellious appeal of camouflage patterns since the 1980s for fashion designers like Versace and Jean-Paul Gaultier, and pop idols from the Clash to Madonna. Whatever the angle, "Camouflage" is a must-see. www.iwm.org.uk