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...This seemed to me to be a rank and flagrant example of that. Here was an actual vote of the people being overturned, which made the winners into losers and the losers into winners," Mansfield says. "Partly I also reacted to the problem of finding anyone who would do anything to get gay activists upset. My experience amply showed why people hesitate...
...insurance benefits and angry over prospective bonuses for Boeing executives, rejected a three-year contract offer that had been accepted earlier by the union leadership. Members of Machinists District Lodge 751 chanted "No givebacks, no way," and "Stop Boeing Greed" as it was announced that 60.9 percent of the rank-and-file rejected the proposal. Union negotiators urged membership to accept the offer, arguing that the agreement would boost pensions, offer some protections against job losses through subcontracting and scale down health care increases. But most of the 24,000 members rejected a requirement that they begin paying part...
...deal with a new sex scandal. This time, as reported in the Washington Post, a chief petty officer was charged with drunkenly groping a young female colleague during a commercial-airline flight. An additional 20 or so sailors were also on board--including a Navy chaplain with the rank of lieutenant commander--who apparently did nothing to intervene, despite the woman's screams. Further unwelcome news for Navy brass: some two dozen midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy are under investigation for alleged marijuana...
...Coaches rank recruits in terms of their potential value to the program, but the admissions office has the final...
...regal and controlling, but rather slimy and pretentious. When he commands Hamlet to "be as us in Denmark," White is less like a cool, calculating usurper and more like a glib James Spader. He's irreverent and funny, but the eloquence of his "o, my offence is rank" speech is undercut by the flippancy of the rest of his portrayal...