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...timing of the job loss threat is also somewhat bizarre, considering yesterday's attempt by UPS to break the strike deadlock with a soundbite-friendly rallying cry for company democracy: "Let our people vote." Rather than the teamsters' council of elders, said the company, the union rank-and-file should have the last say on whether the company's contract offer sinks or swims. Today's threat will have workers wondering how genuine that offer...
...scheming to be rid of House Speaker Gingrich, DeLay and his co-conspirators showed all the talent for intrigue of Peter Sellers in his Pink Panther days. Depending on who's doing the telling, the schemers included one, two or all three of the other House leaders ranked directly below the Speaker--majority leader Dick Armey, G.O.P. conference chairman John Boehner and leadership chairman Bill Paxon--not to mention 20 or more insurgents from the rank and file. Cooked up in secrecy, the coup collapsed before it could begin. The result was a week of backstabbing that left Gingrich weaker...
...might have come off had Brutus, Cassius et al been able to decide who would be the new colossus. "It was supposed to be a bloodless coup," says Carney, "with Dick Armey, Paxon, and (GOP Whip) Tom Delay coming to Newt and telling him: 'we can't control the rank-and-file insurgents any more.' They were going to give him an ultimatum, and Gingrich would have had to step down, without making a scene in front of the Democrats." But after a series of post-midnight meetings late last week, the cabal's resolve apparently disintegrated in a succession...
Besides overall salary levels, the report also contained data on salary increases of "continuing faculty," payraises for those who maintained their same academic rank--another area where Harvard faculty fared well...
...those with only three, friends of the Secretary of Defense and those who have not yet had the pleasure of meeting him. Herewith, then, the protocol for adultery detection and punishment, to be posted immediately at all bases and implemented without regard to the suspected adulterer's sex, rank or likelihood of being appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...