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Labor Secretary Robert Reich has warned that legal loopholes encourage some companies "to avoid their responsibility to train U.S. workers for these important high-tech jobs." But to executives who say they cannot find enough homegrown employees to design computers and other advanced products, the Simpson bill is a dangerous threat to America's technological edge. "Instead of building a bridge, this whole effort is carving out a moat," says NAM's Eisen...
...true. One of the signatories to the Hyde letter is Zvi Or-Bach, an Israeli engineer who six years ago founded Chip Express, a manufacturer of custom-made microchips that has 64 employees--only 30 are foreign--in Santa Clara, California, and 30 more in Israel. Under the Simpson bill, Or-Bach argues, he would have been unable to hire enough skilled workers to start up his thriving firm. In fact, there would have been no one to dream up the company, since Or-Bach came to the U.S. in 1981 on a visa to work for Honeywell. "If this...
...where was he and what was he doing on the night of the murders? In his first major live TV interview since his acquittal, O.J. Simpson told a national cable-TV audience on Black Entertainment Television that people will have to buy his $29.95 video to hear those details. Many may prefer to wait a bit and instead hear his responses--for the first time under oath--to the deposition questioning that began this week in the civil case brought by the families of murder victims Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Transcripts of those closed-door proceedings are expected...
WITH APOLOGIES TO THE LATE DR. SEUSS, who surely would have been wise enough to steer clear of this whole affair: "The time has come/ The time is now/ Just go, Go, GO!/ I don't care how/ You can go by foot/ Or by Bron-co/ O.J. Simpson, will you please...
...hereby solemnly swear that these are the last words I will ever write about O.J. Simpson, even if he runs naked down Rockingham Avenue shouting, "I did it! I did it!" Like many other Americans, I am heartily sick of his case and all the portentous analysis, including my own, that it has inspired. There are U.S. troops in Bosnia and a presidential election. It's time to get on with our lives...