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...FASHION MODEL CAN QUIT WAITRESSING WHEN THE MAGAZINE COVERS AND RUNWAY GIGS ROLL IN, BUT MODELING CAN NEVER BE A FULL-FLEDGED CAREER until the beauty companies call. Polish-born Daria Werbowy recently hit the big time. Her contract with the French cosmetics brand Lancme, announced last year, is said to be $3 million...
...libertarian in contrast to the largely Christian conservative Salient staff, says she was uncomfortable with this religiosity. Disinterested in the issues being discussed by the Salient’s “very Catholic” and “very Orthodox” members, she says, she recently quit the newspaper. Internal critics aside, those across the aisle, like members of the Harvard Democrats, do not directly cite religious teachings as political policy, but in contrast to Dewey’s comments, many are quick to say that religion does influence their political beliefs. “Religion...
...More child-care centers mean more jobs, but the industry struggles to keep workers from deserting the profession because of burnout and low wages - a qualified child-care worker might get $A35,000 a year. At Whittlesea Child Care Centre, in Melbourne, coordinator Margaret Hayes recently had a carer quit because she could earn more working in a supermarket. At the East Melbourne Child Care Co-operative, manager Petra Hilsen is happy if just a handful of people apply for a position. Ten years ago, "you got so many you didn't have time to look at them all." Wages...
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INITIATED. Into the death of PAT TILLMAN, Arizona Cardinals defensive back who quit football to join the Army after 9/11 and was killed in Afghanistan in April 2004, after fellow Rangers mistook him for a Taliban fighter; by the Defense Department's inspector general; in Washington. The Army originally blamed enemy fire for Tillman's death. Tillman's family has criticized three previous Army investigations as incomplete...
...APPOINTED. RAMZAN KADYROV, 29, son of assassinated former Chechen president Akhmad, as the troubled Russian republic's Prime Minister; in the capital Grozny. Allied to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kadyrov became Chechnya's de facto premier after Sergei Abramov?who quit as P.M. last week?was injured in a car crash last year. Human rights groups accuse militia commanded by Kadyrov of widespread abuses, especially "disappearances" of thousands of suspected rebels, charges the new premier denies...