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...been tarred by an ongoing gender-discrimination class action filed in California in 2001, and it recently was ordered to pay $62 million in penalties on top of the $78.5 million judgment awarded by a jury last year after it found Wal-Mart guilty of shortchanging associates in Pennsylvania who worked during their breaks or after they clocked out. (Wal-Mart says it will appeal.) Nor has it looked all that cuddly in its death-match legal posture in a couple of high-profile firings, the issues notwithstanding. Case in point: the dismissal of advertising chief Julie Roehm, accused...
Today's Democratic Party appears to be taking a page from Jefferson's playbook by contesting the religious vote. In 2006 Democrats successfully ran an ordained minister for Ohio Governor against Ken Blackwell, a darling of the religious right, and a pro-life Catholic for Senator in Pennsylvania against fellow Catholic Rick Santorum. Now, as the numerous public declarations of faith made during this campaign season suggest, the party's leading candidates for President seem to have learned this lesson too and are, no doubt, praying for a similar outcome...
...Nile Valley, analyzing animal bones from two archaeological sites. “She was always very excited to see the day’s finds, and ran out every day to greet the donkey cart when it came in from the site,” said University of Pennsylvania professor Josef W. Wegner, who conducted research with Rossel in Egypt. “It was wonderful to have such a sparkling personality out in the Egyptian desert,” he said. Rossel, who is a Danish citizen, had also conducted field research in Syria, Turkey, and Sudan, said...
...starters, it's hardly accurate to say the G.O.P. kissed off all those states last time around. Several were more competitive than some may recall. Facing Sen. John Kerry, Bush led from time to time in some statewide polls in Wisconsin and Minnesota as well as in Michigan and Pennsylvania well into the last month of the 2004 campaign. I recall sitting with one of Kerry's top strategists on the final weekend of the campaign and hearing him worry out loud over a drink about what a difficult state Wisconsin has become for Democrats...
...that Giuliani's more moderate positions on gays and abortion, and his tolerant notions about immigration, may mean that some of those states that have resisted Republicans in presidential contests in recent years might be on the table. Certainly New Jersey (15 electoral votes) , Connecticut (8) and parts of Pennsylvania (21) would go on any careful Democrat's watch list...