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Well have to see how long it takes before the next contract squabble occupies our headlines. But if the last week has been any indication, the sports world is learning its lesson and has really begun putting things in perspective...
...Visa card, on which they rang up substantial charges, and gave the same Mail Boxes Etc. addresses, especially toward the last days of their lives. On attack day, four to seven cross-country tickets were billed to the same card. The same card number showed up on the rental contract for a car the hijackers left at Logan Airport and for a Boston hotel room some slept in. The pile of credit-card receipts, rental-car contracts, hotel bills and airline tickets tracks their movements as they eventually made their way from Florida to three chosen airports. By then...
...Martin’s cannot require Let’s Go to change its content, but it does have to approve every item in every book. Still, St. Martin’s is bound to publish the guides for a flat inflation-adjusted advance through 2006 by a contract signed last year, effectively insulating Let’s Go from market pressures for the next five years...
...Nike’s human rights abuses are numerous and documented,” McKean said. “And Harvard itself has documented human rights abuses that take place in factories that already produce Harvard apparel. Clearly a contract with Nike is not a step towards solving problems that exist in these factories...
...where should the government draw the new, blurry line to replace marriage? Says Reah: "If you can prove that you're a long-term established partner, you should be treated the same as a married person." But how does one prove partnership? What constitutes long-term? "Marriage is a contract and a public commitment to share," says James Jones, the Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, who has written extensively on the importance of marriage. "Partnership is a private arrangement which deliberately lacks that public commitment and those legal obligations." That's true today. But if Homsi and Harris have their...