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...expected to give up the controversial jobs bank and approve a change in funding the VEBA trust that is supposed to take over paying for health-care of blue-collar retirees in January, 2010. The $7 billion contribution GM owes its VEBA could be postponed indefinitely, according to Sean McAlinden, vice president of the Center For Automotive Research in Ann Arbor...
...concessions would permit the automakers to delay payments to the retiree healthcare trust [VEBA] due during 2009 and cancel the controversial jobs bank immediately. The union also plans to re-open contract discussions with all three automakers and will consider what Gettelfinger describes as "modifications" to the current contract...
...majority vote, even allowing students the option of public hearings provides a healthy counter to the perception of opacity that plagues the current Ad Board. Moreover, the SFJB mandates both graduate and undergraduate students to serve on the Board itself. While questions of confidentiality and other complications remain, the trust which the Board vests in its student members helps to mitigate the feelings of enmity between the Administration and students that often complicates disciplinary disputes. The SFJB also explicitly allows students to testify in their own defense, to call witnesses on their behalf, and to retain any advisor...
...close. He helped me through the Rhodes application process - he would send me text messages every day with interview prep questions - and has mentored me with how to deal with the media. If I have a question about females, he'll give me advice. He's somebody who I trust, respect, admire. Then there's Bill Bradley. He played basketball at Princeton, played for the Knicks, was a U.S. Senator and a Rhodes Scholar as well. So he's someone who's won so many hats in his life and been successful combining academics and athletics, and a great role...
...admission or apology from the Administration in its waning days, and the Pentagon's attitude toward the civilian casualties caused by its troops leaves a lot to be desired. Without actively seeking moral (and legal) accountability, both retrospectively and looking to the future, America will never regain the trust and authority it has lost. Barry Meggs, DUBLIN...