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...When the basketball and hockey teams had games at the same time, Clymer and a friend who worked as a stringer for the Herald Tribune would split and meet up afterward at the Western Union office to exchange notes so that each of them could file a story on two different games...
...years leading up to his exit in 2002, Knowles would pull the Faculty out of a deficit and back building projects that included the refurbishment of freshman dormitories and the conversion of the old Freshman Union into a new humanities hub, the Barker Center. The reception following Knowles’ service was held in Annenberg Hall, in the shadow of the Memorial Hall tower which Knowles renovated during his first term as dean, healing the damage left over from a 1956 fire...
...bigger challenge for FIFA is that in their current form, the proposals are flat-out illegal, because they flout the European Union's rules permitting workers the freedom of movement among member states. FIFA's plan drew a "red card" from Vladimir Spidla, E.U. Employment Commissioner, ahead of the Sydney meeting...
...government is, in reality, organizing the end of the 35-hour week," charged Fran?ois Chereque, head of the nation's largest union, Democratic Confederacy of French Labor, in Le Monde. "It's an affront, or a challenge. In any case, it's a provocation...
...Fair-play, rather than any affection for France's 35-hour work week, motivated Parisot's comment; elsewhere, she reiterated Medef's conviction that the 2000 law that created the institution should simply be repealed. Most members of France's ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) agree, and have called for the statue to be struck from the books to give companies freedom to work longer hours at lower cost. Earlier in May, UMP president Patrick Devedjian expressed the longing of virtually all French conservatives by "forcefully requesting the definitive dismantlement of the 35-hour week...