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...Kapuscinski has been accused of spying for the very communists he satirized. Citing documents in the former secret police archives, Newsweek Polska reported last month that Kapuscinski agreed to pass along information to Poland's spy agency between 1967 and 1972, probably as a condition for being allowed to travel abroad. Such deals were not uncommon for Polish journalists under the Soviet-backed regime, and in one document his handlers complain that he never gave them anything of value. With Kapuscinski unavailable for comment, the spying allegations will remain a cloud over his career. But he was acutely aware...
Adoption has become an employment issue. Because more women delay parenthood to pursue careers during their prime childbearing years, some seek alternative avenues to build their families. With each adoption costing up to $30,000 and often demanding mounds of paperwork and weeks of travel, workers are asking their employers for help. They're getting it, mainly from companies in competitive industries hungry to attract and keep talent. Google, JPMorgan Chase, Abbott Laboratories, Avon and Motorola have all added adoption assistance to their buffet of benefits. In 1990, only 12% of 1,000 companies surveyed by Hewitt Associates offered financial...
...council meeting that week was dominated by a throng of hotel workers, who had just been notified that their jobs had been terminated. After nearly 90 minutes of public comment—and several photo opportunities with the council—the travel appropriation passed unanimously and without debate...
...However, the Cambridge Chronicle highlighted the measure later in the week with a story that accused the mayor of “blowing” through his travel budget and asking for even more money. After the paper filed a Freedom of Information Act request for details of Reeves’ travel costs, Reeves appointed John Clifford, an ex-Marine, union organizer, and political operative for the mayor, as his spokesman—a highly unconventional move given the council’s general openness to the public...
...report showed Reeves had only spent $11,000 of his travel budget, not the full allotment as the Chronicle previously reported. Chronicle Editor David Harris says that the error “was because [Reeves] never returned our phone calls, and we relied on the fact that he requested this extra money. We acknowledge... that he hadn’t blown through the budget...