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Frankly, if they're making a million overnight, how much sympathy can the rest of us have? One man, however, is working overtime on our behalf for the time off we're being cheated out of. Joe Robinson, 49, of Santa Monica, Calif., an adventure-travel magazine editor, has been on talk shows nationwide pitching a law that would guarantee three weeks of vacation to anyone who works at a job for a year and four weeks after three years. On his website Escapemag.com Robinson rants, "We're the most vacation-starved country in the industrialized world." A self-serving...
...calling in sick because of stress more than tripled. "I've got a lot of clients coming to me from Silicon Valley," says Pam Ammondson, 45, who runs Clarity Quest, a Santa Rosa, Calif., workshop to counsel jangled burnout victims. "It's a dream to make a million dollars overnight. But these people are not happy, their relationships are miserable, and they're taking a step back to ask what it's all about...
...also says while an ethnic studies program is attainable, it would not occur overnight. She suggested the number of ethnic studies courses would need to be "significantly increased," that more Faculty would be needed to teach those courses and that enough students would need to express interest in taking those courses before the campaign would even consider submitting a proposal to the administration...
...methods under which they operated after learning from Sammy. They became more aggressive, showed a lot of force and were more organized. It was almost like they were being schooled." They also began to use Gravano's name to intimidate other dealers and took to carrying guns. Almost overnight, police say, the gang became the top supplier of ecstasy in Arizona. At its height, police estimate, the ring was selling as many as 10,000 pills a week and raking in almost $1 million a month...
...small overnight protest gathering in Miami's Little Havana seemed to epitomize the fate of the losing side of the Elian Gonzalez case. The demonstrators had gathered outside what had been the home of Lazaro Gonzalez in anticipation of the ruling to be handed down by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday, but Mr. Gonzalez - like Elian himself - no longer lives there. The court upheld the Justice Department's decision to send Elian home to his father, dismissing the Miami relatives' claim that the six-year-old is entitled to file an asylum request independently of his father...