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Well, not really. This week, Yankee outfielder Luis Polonia was given a two-month sentence for having sex with a minor. Once again, George's boys have managed to steal the headlines. The front page of Tuesday's New York Post read: "Jail Bait." Love that classy tabloid journalism...
...doubts have arisen about many of the purported facts surrounding the spill and the role of Hazelwood, who faces up to twelve years in prison if convicted of the criminal charges pending against him in Alaska. A two-month TIME investigation of the accident has unveiled a wider web of accountability in which Exxon and the Coast Guard appear to share some of the blame for the worst oil disaster in U.S. history. As the Valdez's captain, Hazelwood will bear the ultimate responsibility for the spill. But whether he was drunk or sober, his actions were not the only...
...compromise may be possible. Democrats initially resisted Bush's demand that employers be allowed to pay their newest employees a subminimum, so- called training wage of $3.35 during their first six months on the job. The House acquiesced but set a two-month limit on the training wage. If the Senate extends the subminimum to three months, Bush may decide to go along with a higher rate than he originally proposed...
Labor experts said that the two-month lag time between HUCTW's announcement of support for a vote and the election was typical. But the union's immediate agitation against Harvard--about what it termed prompt action on the election--would linger through all subsequent negotiations and hostilities between the two sides...
...vote efforts. The union won the May 17th election by a 44-vote margin, although if it had received four fewer votes the election would have been litigated under a previous agreement with the University. The election capped a three-year organizing drive by HUCTW and a two-month anti-union campaign waged by the University...