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...University signs an agreement with the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers to provide greater compensation for nominally part-time or "casual" employees who worked full-time hours. Over 400 employees are affected...
...Living downstairs from May gave her the chance to become better friends with someone who was once just a casual acquaintance...
When enacted, the committee's recommendations will extend basic health insurance to nearly all of Harvard's non-casual workforce, including those subcontracted by outside firms and expand programs in job and educational training. Harvard employees who work 16 or more hours a week will be eligible for health benefits; previously, such benefits were reserved only for employees who worked at least 20 hours a week. The University will also refuse to contract with firms that do not provide health insurance for their employees. Furthermore, employees will have more access to job training and educational development programs, such as classes...
Increasingly, though, we go to Jackie Chan movies not for the star's good moves but for his good nature. He's the kind of guy you could ruin with slickness and overmounting, the sort of performer who flourishes in the hip-casual context that screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have provided him here. Everyone's having a good time, but they're not winking at us either--making us parties to their in-jokes. As a result, we have a swell time...
Those of us who went into war zones usually found Kurt waiting for us, casual yet intense, bearded in later years, his wire-rim glasses perched above an energetic smile, sardonic yet engaged. I would take him aside to find out what was really happening. He always knew more than the U.N. and the diplomats. Unlike many great war correspondents, he seemed oblivious to the lures of fame; when I asked him why he stayed with Reuters, he said, "They let me do what interests...