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...water? No. The problem is not health or the environment, according to Pavel Mracek, the Czech plant's personnel director. The problem is the government's absenteeism policy. At present, a typical worker at the Czech plant earns about €370 a month - but if he calls in ill, he'll get €325 in benefits from the government over the same period. Not surprisingly, absenteeism in the Czech Republic has soared almost 20% since the policy was adopted in 1999. Today, 710 out of every 10,000 workers are absent due to illness on any given workday. Says Mracek...
LOST IN LA MANCHA. Visionary director Terry Gilliam’s ill-fated recent effort to make a Don Quixote movie is chronicled in this new documentary. After a difficult pre-production period, Gilliam’s film is slapped with a malicious case of Murphy’s Law once it begins shooting. Six days of location work, flash floods, screaming jets and an injured star force the production to shut down, leaving insurance agents to smooth over the chaos and Gilliam fans to ponder what might have been. Jeff Bridges, who starred in Gilliam?...
...recent nightclub tragedies in Chicago, Ill. and Providence, R.I. strike with especial poignance to the college crowd. The sad and painful death of so many people resonates with students—many of whom frequent nightclubs regularly. It seems that disasters such as these could strike at a club near Harvard, or any college campus, in the plainest and most ordinary of circumstances...
...think these are just ill-will suits,” reparations opponent David Horowitz said...
Constitutional amendments must be put in place to ensure equality in education, health care and housing, U.S. Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr., D-Ill., said at the ARCO forum last night...