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Leibovitz’s career began as an art student in San Francisco. In 1970, she began working for Rolling Stone Magazine and became its chief photographer soon after. Since then she has gone on to take photographs for Vogue, Vanity Fair, and advertising campaigns for American Express, Gap, and Louis Vuitton...
...When her luggage failed to appear at JFK airport, Schillaci filed a claim with Eurofly. She was especially desperate to get her bag back because it contained more than $1,000 worth of new clothes she'd bought in Italy. We're not talking T shirts from the Gap. These were fine Italian-made garments...
...benefit gap continues to expand in part because governments face a steady ramping up of collective bargaining demands. "Decisions about benefits changes can't be made instantaneously as they can be in the private sector," says Blaine Bos, a consultant for Mercer based in Minneapolis, Minn. Instead, government agencies have to battle bit by bit for benefit trims that employees can collectively counter by marshaling great passion. In 2005 when California's Governor Schwarzenegger tried to radically reform the state's expensive pension plan, he met a firestorm of protest from unions, and ultimately backed down...
...voters whose absentee ballots had been rejected. Ramsey County rejected roughly 750 of the nearly 13,000 absentee ballots submitted, or 5.7%. That isn't much but considering the small size of Coleman's current lead, it could prove to be an important avenue for Franken to close the gap. Minnesota law allows elections officials to count legally rejected ballots if they can determine voter intent. With voter information in hand, the Franken campaign can also try to determine whether a ballot has been erroneously rejected. Minnesota law allows ballots that have been thrown out because of "administrative errors...
Harvard may be used to bucking national trends, but in math and computer science, its relationship to the national gender gap is more complicated.Nationally, the number of incoming female undergraduates choosing computer science as a major declined 70 percent between 2000 and 2005, according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology. The trend is part of a quarter-century decline in female computer-science majors detailed in a New York Times article on Saturday.At Harvard, the story looks different, but not necessarily any better. Over the past year, female enrollment in Computer Science 50 has jumped 60 percent...