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...Living Wage Campaign is fighting for a reasonable hourly rate of pay, as defined by the City of Cambridge, but implicit in its message is a call to treat those who cook our meals, clean our floors and wash our dishes with respect. This respect can take many forms and is all too often absent. It's in things as simple as politely greeting the employee who swipes our cards at meals as well as in refraining from adorning the Quincy House elevator with frozen yogurt, as someone felt the need to do last week...
However, Murray said that two hours before a scheduled meeting with Betrouni and both men's lawyers on May 18, he received a phone call from Betrouni's attorney saying the deal...
...envoys met in Bonn Wednesday to finesse the peace plan and draft a U.N. resolution authorizing it. The big losers in any diplomatic solution may be the Kosovo Liberation Army, who had enjoyed something of an informal alliance with NATO during the past eight weeks. The G8 principles call for them to be disarmed, while guaranteeing a political autonomy that falls short of their demand for independence from Yugoslavia. The insurgents are unlikely to accept those terms -- but then, should they choose to fight on, the KLA will become the peacekeepers' problem rather than Milosevic...
...Castro, Saddam Hussein and Milosevic didn't have to check with anybody before they cut a deal with Jackson. They just did it, providing him with instant gratification and themselves with a propaganda bonanza that typically includes the reverend's fervently imploring the U.S. President to give them a call. If Jackson were to bad-mouth the butcher with whom he was just holding hands and praying, the next one just might turn him away...
...event of a natural disaster. Standard policies, you see, don't typically cover flood damage. Indeed, less than a quarter of the 10 million households near the coasts that are most at risk this summer have additional, government-backed flood insurance, which costs about $300 a year (for information, call 800-427-4661). Don't expect the government to come to the rescue, either. Only some 10% of all natural disasters actually qualify for federal assistance. And even in those dire cases, you can usually get only a special, low-interest loan, not cash compensation...