Word: unionizers
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...revealing truths that many of us may find uncomfortable. It's dismissive of the human experience, says Blankenhorn, to suggest that kids don't suffer, extraordinarily, from divorce: "Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union brought them here. To lose that connection, that sense of identity, is to experience a wound that no child-support check or fancy school can ever heal...
...guilelessness, as though loving the kids and doing right by them were unrelated events: "I have a new chapter in my life. I'm only 32 years old. I really don't know what's going to happen." And of course, the Gosselins command more attention now that their union is broken than they did when it was intact...
...America's obsession with high-profile marriage flameouts - the Gosselins and the Sanfords and the Edwardses - reflects a collective ambivalence toward the institution: our wish that we could land ourselves in a lasting union, mixed with our feeling of vindication, or even relief, when a standard bearer for the "traditional family" fails to pull it off. This is ultimately self-defeating. It is time instead to come to terms with both our unrealistic expectations for a happy marriage and our equally unrealistic beliefs about the consequences of walking away from the families we build. (See pictures of classic weddings...
...This past spring, 25 of 72 eligible Law School employees accepted buyouts from the University. Administrators further reduced the personnel budget by eliminating some vacant positions and visiting faculty appointments, freezing faculty and non-union staff salaries, and slashing faculty allowances. Professors and senior administrators have also pledged several hundred thousand dollars in donations to help offset the budget...
...Corrales says that coups are an "unacceptable" way for opponents to confront ambitious presidencies. But to keep her presidency relevant, Fernández, 56, will have to moderate her own political reach. Although Kirchner's Buenos Aires congressional slate lost to the more conservative opposition party, Union-Pro, he still gets a seat in the Chamber of Deputies because of proportional-voting rules. But Union-Pro leader and billionaire businessman Francisco de Narváez told the Buenos Aires daily La Nación that Kirchner "needs to step aside and let his wife be the nation's President...