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...Boston Public schools faced a major blow in November 1998, when the first circuit court ruled in favor of Sarah Wessman, a white student who claimed that race-based admissions policies illegal denied her admission to the exam-based Boston Latin School...
...Major League Baseball?s umpires have just called themselves out. Fifty-seven of the sports world?s fattest, grumpiest and, by some accounts, blindest men have sent in their resignation from the league, effective September 2. Mind you, it?s not a strike ?- more of a balk. "A strike is a union-sponsored withholding of services," umpires? union head Richie Phillips told the New York Times. "This, in fact, is a resignation of their position and their signing with another corporation to provide services." That "other corporation" was of course tailor-made a few weeks ago for just this eventuality...
...Fifty-seven of the 66 major-league umpires have already signed on with the fledgling outfit, says Phillips, and the other nine may soon follow. Why? "The umpires feel underappreciated, and they think they?ll have a stronger negotiating position if they?re selling their services to the league, rather than working as employees." More leverage, more benefits, more respect ?- and, of course, more money. "Profit-sharing could even be a part of this down the road," says Baumohl. "The teams are individual companies, who share in the league revenues -- why not the umps?" The umpires? current collective bargaining agreement...
...years ago, whites needed official permits to enter black townships in South Africa. Now township tours are included in the travel packages of major South African cities, and visitors are invited to spend a night or two with a local family. "It brings out the entrepreneurs in the travel industry," says David Moshapalo, who runs a Johannesburg travel agency. "Bed-and-breakfast operations can start by opening up the family home to tourists who look to experience life with a South African family as part of their holiday...
...such as this one," says TIME Detroit bureau chief Nichole Christian, "there?s an emotional connection that tends to drive the price up." But in the end, it is hardball negotiations that usually fix the final price tag, she says. This is precisely what happened in GM?s last major product-liability setback. In February 1993, a Georgia jury slapped General Motors with a $105 million verdict for having designed its C/K pickup trucks with sidesaddle gas tanks, which the plaintiffs claimed made the vehicles prone to explode during side crashes. The Georgia verdict was overturned by an appellate court...