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...Times's William Knoedelseder. "You might say I was unionized into a corner." Mitzi got a fig leaf of satisfaction three years later, when an administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board ruled that the comedians, as independent contractors, could not be unionized. "In my personal view, workman's comp, benefits - those were always in the back of Mitzi's mind as something that would break the Comedy Store," says Hamilton. "I was thrilled," Mitzi says of the ruling. "It meant they never had to pay taxes to the government...
...Goffredo and Darcy] have both been workman-like players their entire career,” Crimson coach Frank Sullivan said. “You can probably pick on two hands the number of times they have missed practice. They have been very resilient all the time. Very workman like, very resilient, excellent practice players. Two guys who at their core are rank-and-file guys, [who] will do what is good for the good of the order and will do that every day to the best of [their] ability...
...rate.A big part of the reason why: the line sacked DiGiacomo four times, giving the Crimson 13 total in only two games.Junior defensive end Desmond Bryant had 1.5 sacks Saturday, while sophomore defensive tackle Matt Curtis aided with a pair, sophomore Carl Ehrlich added another, and junior end Sam Workman earned credit for half a sack. The backfield pressure also helped ease the burden on Harvard’s secondary.“They make things a lot easier for us,” said junior cornerback Steve Williams, who had the Crimson’s only turnover?...
Hayden spent two years in the 1980s hunting military secrets of the cold war as a defense attach in the U.S. embassy in Bulgaria, where, according to the Times of London, he was known to dress as a workman and ride buses listening to off-duty soldiers talking (he speaks Bulgarian). That was about the extent of his undercover work; he was always more in the business of data analysis than field operations. He has considerable public relations savvy. When he took over the NSA in 1999, it was still a very secretive place--the nerve center of U.S. espionage...
...coincidences go, this is a corker. At the time, Junger's mom was having a studio built behind their house, and DeSalvo was there as a workman. And there's another wrinkle, one that might or might not have been a coincidence. During the period DeSalvo was working at the Jungers', a 62-year-old woman was killed in a house down the street. Her name was Bessie Goldberg, and she was raped and strangled--precisely the Strangler's modus operandi. But DeSalvo was never charged with the crime. Instead a black man named Roy Smith, who had cleaned Goldberg...