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...Million Signatures Campaign” who was awarded Sweden’s illustrious Olaf Palme human rights award in March, was jailed last month along with three others for the crime of threatening national security. While the women’s movement had a slight victory in recent weeks, with the Iranian Parliament deleting Ahmadinejad’s abhorrent clauses to the bill, it is likely not the end of Ahmadinejad’s attempts to “re-Islamize” Iranian women...
...that companies might even be at risk of not being able to pay workers. So far, there's little, if any, evidence of that. Automatic Data Processing, which handles paychecks for 400,000 small businesses, dips into its clients' bank accounts to pay their employees. There has been a slight uptick in the number of times there haven't been ready funds, but at this point, that pattern isn't any different from what ADP has observed in previous economic slowdowns...
...explore consciousness, to meditate on his own life, or to tease out an historical period obscured by cultural memory–feels ignored. Whether “Indignation” could bear the weight of a longer story is uncertain, but it certainly wouldn’t feel so slight.—Staff writer Ryan Meehan can be reached at rmeehan@fas.harvard.edu...
...moments are only hinted at, rather than explained outright through clunky dialogue. This decision, however, did not complicate the acting process. “I explained everything that happened to the characters before page one of the script,” Hammer said. Still, he sometimes gave the actors slightly different versions of their background stories because, according to Hammer, “that’s the way the truth is.” He would then put the actors together and have them rehearse a scene, each person believing something slightly different about the way the fictional events...
...slight change can just barely be detected. Now, the band appears to be content catering to a larger, potentially more-discerning audience. Though the notion of creating popular music may be the bane of some artists’ careers, TV on the Radio finds nothing wrong with bridging the gap between the masses and the critics...