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...start of the school year has not been entirely smooth. Several state-run schools won't open on time because of construction problems. Parents have found it difficult to navigate the new school system, and officials are laboring to hire qualified teachers and retrain existing ones. The teacher's union has complained that some schools have opened prematurely...
...Lebanon to rent an apartment for a year. During that year, Hizballah will rebuild all their homes, according to Hussein Kheireddine, the manager of Jihad of Construction, Hizballah's engineering wing, which in effect has become the largest contracting firm in Lebanon overnight. The Jihad of Construction plans to hire some of the country's biggest construction companies for projects that need to be done quickly, like removing debris from the streets before the autumn rains begin. But it will hire smaller companies from the most affected communities to do the bulk of the reconstruction work. "Many of them will...
...boss's business if you have a cigarette after dinner? After an Irish job ad stipulated that "smokers need not apply," that [an error occurred while processing this directive] question was put to the European Commission, which decided that employers refusing to hire smokers do not breach European antidiscrimination laws. "The Commission can legislate on age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, race and gender," says Commission spokesperson Katharina von Schnurbein. "For all other areas, it's the member state's responsibility." Critics fumed that though some countries, such as France and Belgium, have laws requiring employers to hire on qualifications alone...
...maps that Smiley has admitted to stealing over a seven-year period.HCL Director of Communications Beth S. Brainard said that the meeting was positive and productive, but that the libraries agreed not to comment on the meeting’s proceedings. Harvard will not announce whether it will hire an investigator to determine if Smiley took more maps than the eight he has admitted to stealing until after Smiley is sentenced in mid-September.The Aug. 7 meeting was intended to give libraries the chance to determine which library each stolen map was taken from. The New York Public Library, Yale University...
...week, opt for a guided group or hoof it on your own, overnighting in small hotels, campsites or even yurts along the way. You thought donkeys were stubborn and lazy? Not so, argues Christian Brochier, whose firm Gentiâne (nice donkey) keeps 35 animals-for-hire in the Cévennes. "They're dream companions, really sweet and good-natured," he says. "I've seen retired people down on their tummies swatting horseflies off their animals, they become so fond of them." They're not the only ones. When it came time to part ways, Stevenson shed a tear...