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...Minh City brokerage firm who was ranked the country's sixth-richest person with stock worth $58 million. A prominent law professor speculated that miffed tycoons might be able to sue for invasion of privacy. Even ordinary citizens were affronted. "A person's assets should be his private secret," wrote one VNExpress reader on the news outlet's website...
...sure as recalcitrant professors might try to stop the tide from turning, they were treated to the most palatable new vision for undergraduate education to date at last week’s Faculty meeting. Deliberately and thoroughly crafted over the last six months by an elite and semi-secret so-called Task Force on General Education, the proposed new requirements will surely revolutionize the way that oversubscribed, underwhelming Core courses are labelled and described in the course catalogue. I don’t know about you, but I’m excited...
...latest ruling is part of a protracted court battle pitting President Bush against human rights advocates who have accused his administration of permitting inhumane treatment of prisoners in Iraq, Guantanamo and secret prisons around the world. After the U.S. Supreme Court declared the military tribunal system created by President Bush unconstitutional, the President asked Congress to give him new authority under a new law, known as the Military Commissions Act, which was signed in October...
...Employee Free Choice Act,” a breathtaking piece of doublespeak. The bill, among other things, strips workers of their right to vote over unionization and instead mandates a “card check.” In other words, rather than having workers vote in a secret ballot monitored by the neutral National Labour Relations Board, a company would have to recognize a union if a majority of its employees sign a public card saying that they want...
...public petitions are, if anything, far more open to abuse than secret ballots. These cards are solicited by union organizers and signed in a face-to-face process that inherently involves intimidation and peer-pressure. If a half-dozen co-workers show up at your door (these cards can be signed anywhere) asking you to sign a pro-union petition, it’s hard to say no. Not only could union bosses watch as workers vote on unionization, they could also “explain” (read: misrepresent) workers’ rights and even control the actual cards...