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...working women has dominated call-in shows, newspapers and online news sites here. The polling company IFOP found that of the 56% of people who condemned Dati's decision, most were women. Maya Surduts of the National Collective for the Rights of Women called Dati's decision a "scandal," arguing that employers could use it to "put intolerable pressure on women" to cut short their maternity leave - enshrined in French law as 16 weeks' paid leave. Florence Montreynaud of the feminist organization Chiennes de Garde (Guard Dogs) likened Dati to women in the 1920s who gave birth on the factory...
...think sex in America has changed dramatically, and young people don't have any real notion as to how much. When I first published Playboy, nice young people did not live together before they got married. Having a baby out of wedlock was a scandal that drove some people to suicide. Oral sex was illegal. Playboy played a major part in changing all that...
...when U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta held a press conference in West Palm Beach on Friday to announce corruption charges against 18-year county commissioner Mary McCarty, he couldn't have summed up the collective feelings of the county's scandal-weary citizens any better. "Today I have a sense of déjà vu," Acosta remarked. (See TIME's top 10 scandals...
...saga, and it's $850 million. That's the estimated amount of liquid assets left from Bernard Madoff's private sandbox of billions, according to Stephan Harbeck, president of the Securities Investors Protection Corp., speaking at Monday's House Financial Services Committee hearing on the $50-billion Madoff scandal...
...Kennedy School received $768,739 from JEHT in 2005 for a three-year project aimed at invigorating state and local enforcement of human rights standards. “The grant was fully paid some time ago, so we do not expect any impact on our work from the Madoff scandal,” Kennedy School professor Christopher E. Stone ’78, faculty chair of the program, said in an e-mail. The College’s Office of Sponsored Programs also received $263,418 from JEHT in fiscal year 2007, according to a list of grant recipients...