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...make-believe of storytelling; it can be an object apart from, and above, the typical narrative-movie experience. That is one of the lessons of an exemplary showcase like the NYAFF. So three, four, five cheers for a festival that celebrates the foreignness - the bizarre, excessive, utterly other-ness - of foreign films...
...newborns or sick relatives. If passed, the bill would mandate the most generous paid-leave policy in the U.S.; it is the first of 24 similar proposals pending this year. Family friendly and popular with female voters, most of the bills are enjoying wide, bipartisan support, says Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families. "We're seeing real movement toward more paid leave...
...statewide measures, Ness says, close gaps left by the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, which was once hailed as a pioneering win for families. The 1993 law grants 12 weeks of unpaid leave, but because it applies only to businesses with more than 50 employees, just 62% of workers--and only 24% of those making less than $30,000 a year--are eligible. (Many new paid-leave bills would apply to all businesses.) Among those who could legally go on leave under the federal policy, the vast majority, 78%, said they couldn't afford to take advantage...
...joins that stable, with an added plus: Fulham's owner Mohamed al Fayed will place Airness products in another asset he owns - Harrods, the London department store. Such coups have enabled Koné to build Airness into France's largest-selling domestic sportswear brand. Relying on his intelligence, busi-ness flair and never-say-die attitude, Koné is an all-too-rare success story: a young black man from the kind of blighted, unemployment-racked French suburban housing projects that erupted in riots last year. In addition to being one of the brightest lights to have come from...
Players and coaches agree: Matt Vance, Harvard baseball’s starting center fielder, is a real “California guy.” While in some spheres the description might suggest laziness, beach bum-ness, or overuse of the word “hella,” it remains a shining compliment when those who know Vance describe...