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Hockey bloggers, after railing at owners and players for wiping out an entire season, were relieved at last week's tentative labor agreement but still angry at the sport's leaders. With word of a salary cap being instituted, most agreed with the HOCKEY PUNDITS that the "owners won on almost all counts," and many called for the union head and NHL commissioner to resign. (For the lighter side of the issue, check out GARY BETTMAN SUCKS.) Yet, as the HOCKEY CRITIC observed, "both parties have a daunting task ahead of them as they try to ... win back the fans...
DIED. ARTHUR FLETCHER, 80, adviser to G.O.P. Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and George H.W. Bush, dubbed the "father of affirmative action"; in Washington. A onetime defensive end for the Baltimore Colts and Los Angeles Rams, he developed the so-called Revised Philadelphia Plan as Nixon's Assistant Labor Secretary. Based on an earlier effort to diversify that city's racist construction unions, his was the first workable outline for affirmative action and became the blueprint for subsequent programs. He later ran the United Negro College Fund, where he coined the slogan "A mind is a terrible thing to waste...
...Remembering is a labor, not a luxury,” Umberto Eco admonishes...
...vivid in the national consciousness that it has been given a name: kakusa shakai (a society of disparity). It isn't hard to find statistical evidence of the phenomenon. In a land once noted for its armies of workaholic salarymen, part-time employees now account for 30% of the labor force. In February, the government announced that the number of people on welfare rose 60% over the last 10 years, reaching 1 million citizens for the first time since the program started in 1950. And according to recent findings by the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD...
...slavery is not just a worry in the third world—it is is increasingly an American problem. In the past five years alone, the press has reported 131 cases of forced labor in the United States involving 19,254 men, women, and children from a wide range of ethnic and racial groups. The victims are both foreign nationals and U.S. citizens, and about half of the cases involve prostitution. Estimates from government documents suggest that 50,000 people are trafficked into the U.S. every year for forced labor. The organization ECPAT-USA (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography...