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...contract settlement—ensuring that all janitors will receive at least $11.35 an hour and raise wages steadily over the next three years—is reached. Both sides claim success with the agreement, which brings to a close six weeks of heated negotiations...
...years in Haiti, constantly exposed to ill patients, Farmer casually mentions that he’s had malaria “a couple of times. Well, maybe more than a couple.” He’s also managed to contract “the usual diseases that goofy anthropologists or incautious students get,” though he has somehow avoided acquiring the drug-resistant tuberculosis he often treats...
...edit a journal, which I will stop doing next year,” Harris says, “I have a couple of book projects under contract which will take a little longer, [but] neither of the Cores are projected to be particularly large and I’ve done them both a number of times. I don’t worry about that...
LARRY WACHOWSKI, co-creator (with his brother Andy) of The Matrix, is so secretive he has a no-publicity clause in his contract with Warner Bros. But details of his personal life are starting to leak out, and oh, my. According to documents posted on the website thesmokinggun.com Wachowski's estranged wife has had his business assets frozen until he accounts for $16 million the brothers were paid for the Matrix movies. "Larry has been extremely dishonest with me in our personal life," she writes. Whoa. And at the L.A. premier of The Matrix: Reloaded, Wachowski showed up with...
...million Value of contract awarded to Bechtel for rebuilding Iraq, most of which the company plans to subcontract...