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...Mitzi called me ten minutes later and said, let's settle this thing right now," says Dreesen. On May 4 a settlement was reached, on essentially the same terms that Mitzi had rejected earlier - twenty-five dollars per set for all but a few specified hours during the week reserved for newcomers. After a six-week walkout, the Comedy Store comics went back to work, claiming victory...
...settlement was hard for Mitzi to swallow. "It was against my basic philosophy and the principles of the Comedy Store that this settlement was made," she told the Los Angeles Times's William Knoedelseder. "You might say I was unionized into a corner." Mitzi got a fig leaf of satisfaction three years later, when an administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board ruled that the comedians, as independent contractors, could not be unionized. "In my personal view, workman's comp, benefits - those were always in the back of Mitzi's mind as something that would break the Comedy...
...festival's hotter tickets, a ChefDance dinner at Harry O's nightclub. "There's something on the table. The writers are gonna have to have really strong reasons to turn this down." A film buyer sipping champagne at the bar expressed hope that the prospect of a settlement might calm Sundance's expected buying frenzy. "The prices here were supposed to go nuts with everyone desperate to fill their slates because of the strike," he said. "Hopefully now it will settle down to where it should...
...investigation will look at issues like the use of intellectual-property rights, litigation and settlement agreements covering the E.U. - all subjects that companies tend to consider highly confidential and might easily withhold, conceal or destroy, Kroes said...
...American initiative alone cannot bring peace to the Middle East. Israel and Palestine must be wholeheartedly committed to following a course towards peace. The specific details of an agreement—such as the dismantling of Israeli settlements, reparations for Palestinian refugees, and the dividing of Jerusalem—must be settled in a fair and firm manner through diplomacy between the two parties. Both sides must also realize that a solution will involve compromises by both sides. In particular, Israel will have to give up land and dismantle its settlements in the West Bank. Palestinians need to forget...