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...hours a week is not good business. You are choosing whom to keep based on the schedule they can keep, not based on the quality of their work." Some solutions to this aren't exactly new ideas: flextime, for example, and restructuring career tracks to accommodate instead of punish parenthood and caregiving to elderly family members. But actually getting society to embrace those as acceptable for both genders is where the challenge lies...
...personal favorite is an adventure featuring The Spectre by Chris Duffy and Craig Thompson. The character, less well-known than many of the others of the book, is a cop named Jim Corrigan who was murdered by gangsters, but reincarnated to punish evil as God’s spirit of Vengeance (yes, comics occasionally acknowledge the theological conundrums posed by a world of Übermenschen). This story delves into what a police precinct would be like with one of the detectives secretly parading around as the Spirit of Vengeance: the supply person who forgets to order a three-ring...
...subconscious minds of critical groups," he said, like the white working class, defined as couples earning about $25,000 a year, the same voters who shifted from the Democrats to the Republicans in 1994. Such voters may see the verdict as a form of judicial affirmative action, and punish any candidate they regard as catering to minorities. "To them," he said, "the verdict was a travesty...
...whose E-mail to a New York Times columnist was quoted on that paper's op-ed page last Wednesday: "When O.J. gets off," he wrote, "the whites will riot the way we whites do: leave the cities, go to Idaho or Oregon or Arizona, vote for Gingrich... and punish the blacks by closing their day-care programs and cutting off their Medicaid." This grim vision was precisely what politicians feared to articulate. If they benefited from the verdict, they wanted to do so passively...
...says. And when he found out that some of them couldn’t be trusted, “that really hurt me. It hurt my feelings.” He calls himself a “victim” and says he wishes the authorities would punish the makers of fake IDs just as they punished...