Word: unionizers
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...closed. I whipped an already-beat Top-Sider at my poster-clad Pennypacker wall. After a year of scabies, long walks to Annenberg, and gazing at a parking-lot vista from my common room window, the prospect of river views and convenient access to the Square was tantalizing. The Union dormite-to-Quadling story is equivalent to a rags-to-new-rags tale. Friends who had been placed in a dumpy river House insisted I was welcome to move in with them. They jest, I thought. Inspired by the likes of Oprah and the Pope, I spent the summer contemplating...
...Instead of increasing aid or taking multilateral action against Darfur, the UN remains silent about NGO expulsion. Why? China is unwilling to retrench its support for Sudan. It blocked a basic press statement from the UN Security Council that would have condemned Khartoum for this retaliatory injustice. The African Union and the Organization of the Islamic Conference, two potential sources of international support in the region, remain silent, and are unlikely to act against al-Bashir...
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...
...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...