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...according to the latest Pentagon survey, which predates the massive call-ups that began with 9/11. Employers are required by law to hold their jobs but are not required to make up the difference between what their workers were earning and what the military pays. Some employers do. When Tyson Foods CEO John Tyson learned last fall that about-to-be-activated employee David Rook was being forced to sell his family's dream house, the poultry firm instituted a policy - retroactive to Sept. 11, 2001 - of paying the difference in wages...
...surreal two weeks. After eight- to 10-hour rehearsal days, we went to the beach, line dancing clubs, a luau—a different party for every night. Tyson foods sponsored a prom for us. Hundreds of down-home ’bama boys were interviewed as possible dates. I don’t know how effective the scanning process was for the final 50—while every guy was definitely hot, Utah’s date didn’t show up and Florida’s reeked of Bacardi...
...Prophet Leo Durocher’s quote “nice guys finish last” could’ve easily come from the Bible. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were not particularly nice guys and they did all right. Criminals Ty Cobb, Ray Lewis and Mike Tyson all ruled their respective sports (indeed, Mike Tyson is proof that God is a twisted sports fan—how else could the world’s scariest man have the girliest voice...
...every Mike Tyson there is a George Foreman, a good man earning championship belts (and millions of dollars from grill machines). My point is, both Foreman’s and Tyson’s successes are equally under God’s influence...
...problem with God’s role in sports is not the Tysons. It’s the Evander Holyfields—men who profess righteousness but father an army of out-of-wedlock children. This kind of hypocrisy should certainly be condemned—perhaps God sent Tyson to smite Evander?...