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...said in an e-mail exchange. Zuckerman’s path to the campaign trail began during the primary season, when he and his blockmate Seth E. Packrone ’10 traveled to Texas to campaign for Obama—a trip that Zuckerman said was the reason he ultimately decided to take this semester off. The social studies concentrator and Lowell House resident cited government professor Michael J. Sandel—who teaches the perennially popular Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice”—as another key factor in bringing him to this level...
...reason for the earlier discounts: a shorter window to shop. Black Friday falls on November 28th this year, the latest date possible. That means five fewer shopping days (and one less weekend) between Thanksgiving and Christmas than last year. "Stores are trying to grab their share of consumers earlier because they don't think there will be that much to go around," says Stacy Janiak, vice chairman and U.S. retail leader at Deloitte LLP. "If they can get people to shop now it will be better than waiting...
...Obviously, there are financial reasons why a firm might not want to hire a pregnant woman: her health insurance will be more expensive and she'll have to take some leave in the foreseeable future. Even so, if it can be proved that that's the only reason she wasn't hired, that firm could be facing the EEOC. "You can imagine the slippery slope," says Frye. "First it's, 'Don't hire a pregnant woman.' Then it becomes, 'Don't hire a woman at all, because she could get pregnant and is likely to be the primary caregiver...
...told me recently. "It's nothing more than like-minded donors getting together to share strategies." When I mentioned that similar organizations on the right had received press scrutiny - I was thinking of the Arlington Group, a coalition of movement conservatives - Mulliner angrily rejected the comparison: "You have no reason to be curious about this. You're going to write a piece that's going to start a fire that needs to get put out, and it's going to cost a lot of money to put it out," he said...
...jump in business failures is one reason why Tokyo yesterday announced a $51 billion economic stimulus package aimed at restoring financial stability to the country. Among other measures, the government will inject more money than originally planned into financial institutions, offer tax breaks on housing loans, and guarantee loans taken out by small-and medium-sized businesses. Prime Minister Taro Aso said the radical package was needed because "a harsh storm seen only once in 100 years is raging...