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There never seems to have been a culture war about who's allowed to use the word redneck. But should someone from say, New York City, feel bad about using the term? I think there's a difference between laughing with and laughing at [people,] and I think that's why it's okay for me to do it. The whole thing started because that's all people called me. I'd go to work in New York and Chicago and people would be hanging around saying, "Foxworthy, you're nothin' but an ol' redneck from Georgia...
...term congressman represents the 8th Congressional District of Massachusetts, which is comprised of Cambridge, Somerville, Boston, and Chelsea. He joins the race against fellow democrats Attorney General Martha Coakley, Boston Representative Stephen F. Lynch, Boston Celtics owner Stephen G. Pagliuca, and City Year co-founder Alan Khazei...
...Think about your long-term plans. If your goal is still to sell your house, think about how you'll pull that off with tenants there. It's not impossible to continue to show your house with other people living in it, but keep in mind that "you have an obligation as a landlord not to bother people at all hours of the day and night," says Yoegel. When and how showings are acceptable should be spelled out in the lease. And remember that tenants probably aren't going to keep your house as pristinely organized and decorated...
...refused parole because that would have required him to admit he was guilty of raping a fellow student at Texas Tech University. The ordeal was wrenching: Cole wept during the nights as he awaited a trial that would sentence him to 25 years in jail. Twice during his prison term he was found unconscious in his cell, a result of the asthma that had plagued him since childhood. The third time he suffered an attack, Dec. 2, 1999, he died from heart failure. Then, in 2007, another man confessed to the crime and Cole was declared innocent. Texas lawmakers wept...
Workplace violence is, of course, a broad term that covers a range of behavior, including, in its most extreme form, homicide. According to Larry Barton, a professor of management and president of the American College in Bryn Mawr, Penn., nonfatal workplace assaults and threats of assaults, have indeed seen a recent uptick - due in part to stress and depression caused by the weak economy. These are the same reasons that researchers think led to the troubling rise in workplace suicides in 2008, which jumped 28% from the year before...