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Instead, give gay and straight couples alike the same license, a certificate confirming them as a family, and call it a civil union - anything, really, other than marriage. For people who feel the word marriage is important, the next stop after the courthouse could be the church, where they could bless their union with all the religious ceremony they wanted. Religions would lose nothing of their role in sanctioning the kinds of unions that they find in keeping with their tenets. And for nonbelievers and those who find the word marriage less important, the civil-union license issued...
Several big beneficiaries are also engaged in controversial activities at odds with U.S. policy. One example is UBS, the Union Bank of Switzerland, which got $5 billion. It recently reached a $780 million deferred-prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice to settle charges that it had deployed undisclosed offshore bank accounts to assist rich Americans in evading U.S. taxes. DoJ is still seeking to force UBS to disclose the names of 52,000 Americans suspected as part of the alleged scheme...
...cost-cutting plans have terrified Opel's 26,000 workers in Germany. Over the past month, rumors of mass layoffs and plant closures have been swirling in the German media. Union leaders are clamoring for a quick decision on the bailout. But Chancellor Angela Merkel's government wants guarantees that any cash that it doles out will not flow back to GM's embattled operations in the U.S., or go down the drain if GM goes bust. (Read a TIME story on Germany's auto industry...
...need all of that slickness and more. Germany is stuck in its worst recession since WWII and exports are plunging. The young politician was elected to the German parliament just seven years ago representing the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) party, which is aligned with Chancellor Merkel's party. A fluent English speaker, he soon made a name for himself in parliament as a foreign policy and defense expert. But it wasn't until last fall, when the CSU went into meltdown after suffering big losses in the Bavarian state elections that Zu Guttenberg was thrown into the spotlight. Last...
Several subcontracted custodial workers employed by Harvard Real Estate Services have been abruptly notified that they will be laid off effective Monday and others have been informed that their hours will be reduced, according to a union organizer. OneSource and UNICCO—subcontracted companies that clean properties administered by HRES—had been asked by Harvard earlier this year to cut contract costs in response to a predicted 30 percent decline in the University’s endowment. Two weeks ago, HRES told OneSource more specifically that it must cut 40 percent of its costs by March...