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Baseball players, at the end of the day, are making money and most likely playing for teams they did not personally follow themselves prior to their careers. They are flawed, human professionals (a player for a playoff-contending team recently made headlines for appearing with bruises on his face incurred during a booze-fueled incident with his wife), not the champions of dueling armies...
...hours of salaried employees, and outsourcing [Sept. 21]. I was laid off from a temporary tax job in April, and I have been unemployed since. On paper, my unemployment appears to be a consequence of the recession. In fact, it is a result of the 2002 offshoring of my prior job: a well-paying, 24-year IT career with AT&T and IBM. Had that not happened, I most likely would have retired in 2008, after 30 years. Instead, I have held temporary jobs and have been underemployed in "permanent" jobs that use my varied skills in accounting, paralegal services...
...Prior to joining the Polo Club, Shaker was a member of the women’s Heavyweight Crew team...
...Disciplinary Alternative Education Program (DAEP) and even boosted her academic ranking while in exile, from 11th in her class to ninth. But the experience left a mark. "It's a really hard, unhappy thing, and it's not fair," Amy told a Houston television reporter in March just prior to testifying before a Texas legislative committee. (See the top 25 crimes of the 20th century...
...that misconduct had occurred. Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles who was at the hearing, says Espinoza "was open to the argument that Polanski should not have to do any more jail time and that the court had been wrong to renege on the prior deal." In July, Polanski's lawyers appealed Espinoza's ruling, once again alleging misconduct and claiming California was consciously avoiding extradition efforts. And then came the Swiss arrest on the decades-old outstanding warrants...