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...would use the AIDS test as a routine part of screening job applicants. "Candidly, we're not looking to hire somebody who may have an adverse impact on our health insurance," said Herbert Chernov, Hollywood's personnel director. "To consciously hire someone who may be dying would be foolish from a financial point of view." The city backed down when its plan was criticized by newspapers, doctors and gay leaders...
...love the Brattle, and I sincerely hope its future sees hordes of melancholic Cambridge intellectuals keeping it alive financially. I also hope, exclusively for its sake, that it can lure plenty of hungry filmgoers foolish enough to attend the torturous, overwrought Heaven’s Gate. It’s one of those films that as a cinephile you hear about all the time—it went wildly over-budget, practically toppled United Artists, and has become the example par excellence of what happens when an obsessive director runs wildly out of control...
...They can be as foolish or stupid in [their] hiring,” Riley said of Harvard. “The debate over qualifications should not be our focus. Your focus should always be on race and gender. Where is the evidence that race or gender had anything to do with this...
...just doing what we have always been doing," he says with the humility of a people known throughout Japan as kenjitsu (rock solid). Compared with residents of Osaka, where personal and corporate bankruptcy rates are among the highest in the nation, Nagoyans are frugal. Local companies resisted making foolish bets during the bubble years, hence avoiding most of the damage from the crash. To this day, Nagoya companies sport some of the lowest debt loads in the country...
...results. A Foreign Ministry spokesman says the remains were consumed in the tests, so there is no way to redo them. Yokota's father, Shigeru Yokota, tells TIME he doesn't really understand the issues surrounding the DNA tests but that he's "angry that Japan now looks foolish in its negotiations with North Korea." In a toughly worded editorial in its March 17 issue, Nature said an inconclusive test result might be "uncomfortable," but urged the Japanese government to get serious with its science. "Dealing with North Korea is no fun," it wrote, "but it doesn't justify breaking...