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...wage campaign won its first success in Baltimore, Md., in 1994, and has since spread to 81 other cities and counties--including Boston and Santa Fe, N.M.--as well as such institutions as universities and school boards. Living-wage proposals are pending in dozens of other localities, from Santa Monica, Calif., to New York City...
...Santa Monica city council passed an ordinance last July that would impose a living wage not only on its contractors but also on hotels and other major businesses located in a 1.5-sq.-mi. "coastal zone," adjacent to its famous beach. Hotel owners got enough signatures to suspend imposition of the law, and are challenging it in a referendum that will be on the city ballot in November...
...credits her teammates with making her captain duties easier, taking her in as a surrogate classmate after tri-captain Grace Bloodwell, catcher Monica Montijo, and utility player Wendy Ciovacco left the squad...
...prosecutors, the independent counsel's investigation concluded last week that there was insufficient evidence to show that the Clintons committed any crimes. The five-volume, 2,200-page report details the investigative odyssey that started with a real estate deal in the Ozarks and led (with a boost from Monica Lewinsky) to Bill Clinton's impeachment. In the aftermath of this $70 million saga, some have fared better than others...
With Ms. Lewinsky on HBO, March is Monica Flashback Month, a good time to remember that McCarthyism may be gone but witch-hunts will always be with us. A good time, too, for The Crucible, Arthur Miller's 1953 warning against communal hysteria, which uses the Salem witch trials as its model for hypocrisy. This lucid if uneven Broadway staging stars a ferocious Liam Neeson, still the thinking man's hunk. Laura Linney has the more subdued role as his suffering wife. But her gift for finding fire in the quietest corners of normality makes her Neeson's equal...