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...student dormitories. Hassel said that within the next five years, "all the desks that can be retrofitted will be retrofitted" with non-adjustable keyboard trays. But this will still leave a substantial number of desks without keyboard trays, and the glaring problem of not having adjustable chairs will persist. For as Goodman pointed out, a non-adjustable keyboard tray will not necessarily be the right height for everyone...
France may have convicted former Vichy government official Maurice Papon of complicity in crimes against humanity, but the nation?s mixed feelings about the Nazi era persist. ?The verdict is anticlimactic,? says TIME Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley. Papon was sentenced to 10 years in prison for deporting Jews to Auschwitz, but a two-year appeal process makes it unlikely the ailing 87-year-old will ever serve time...
...slip, and they'd just hand you one," says Skip Shipman, a florist in Woodstock, Ga., whose local bank was acquired by McColl in 1996. "Then NationsBank started charging a dollar for a deposit slip." After a wave of protests, the bank halted the practice last year. But complaints persist about other fees and services...
...true, undoubtedly, Clinton is in trouble. He will have committed perjury, and Ken Starr?s investigation -- long mired in arguments over immunity and executive privilege -- will have something to nail him on. But that's a big "if." Where Willey is concerned, questions persist: Why did Linda Tripp describe her as ?joyous? after her Oval Office encounter? Why did Willey continue to write Clinton and his personal assistant, Nancy Hernreich, in what sources describe as a ?consistently friendly and admiring manner? after he had supposedly assaulted her? Why does her Jones testimony contradict another sworn deposition, in a lawsuit against...
...this campaign, wages have increased, workers have paid holidays, drinking water and bathrooms are finally in some of the fields and the treatment of workers by the companies has slowly begun to improve. Much, however, remains to be done. Wages are still unjustifiably low, sexual harassment continues to persist in the fields and the vast majority of the workers, while still affected by the widespread use of pesticides, have no access to basic health care...