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...Personnel and Ministry of Health websites last week; in Beijing. Earlier versions barred those with HIV or AIDS from public service, and were denounced as unconstitutional by Chinese AIDS activists and human-rights attorneys. The new guidelines still don't cover those with full-blown AIDS, but Shanghai-based lawyer-activist Zhou Dan says the reform will help "ensure that the government isn't in the position of legalizing discrimination...
City Council member Anthony D. Gallucio said Harvard has not adjusted its in-lieu-of-taxes payment to Cambridge in over a decade. He and fellow Council member Timothy J. Toomey, Jr., will present a resolution tonight asking Cambridge’s top city lawyer to consider the legality of measures that would compel Harvard to pay a heftier tax bill...
...picture: sales and earnings were up, debt was under control, and the firm was awash in cash. Satisfied that he'd reassured the financiers, Ferraris hoped the worst was over. "It was my job to patch up relations with the market," he told Time in an interview at his lawyer's Milan office. Then his doubts started to pile up. First, Ferraris says, he couldn't understand why the company was paying so much to service its debt; the interest payments seemed far higher than warranted for the €5.4 billion in debt on the books. Even more troubling...
...lawyer and longtime Republican operative, Martinez was named Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by President Bush, and he quickly became the Administration's preferred candidate to run for the Florida seat. With the White House and the national Republican organization--not to mention Florida Governor Jeb Bush--in his corner, Martinez might have run a vigorous but dignified race. Instead, his campaign slung mud early, labeling his primary opponent a tool of the "radical homosexual lobby" (the St. Petersburg Times withdrew its endorsement of Martinez in disgust) and calling the federal agents who seized Cuban refugee Elián Gonz?...
...Vietnam War seemed, at times, to have almost as large a presence in the campaign as the war in Iraq, it may be, at least in part, because of John O'Neill, a Houston lawyer and former swift-boat commander whose feud with Kerry dates back more than 30 years. The first time O'Neill's anger at Kerry surfaced was in 1971, when the fellow naval officers debated the Vietnam War on The Dick Cavett Show, with Kerry speaking out against the war and O'Neill defending it. This time out, O'Neill, 58, and the group he helped...