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...Burton, in his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, says he thinks other factors may have impeded his move to establish the respect of the council...
...first duties of government is to establish justice--impartial, independent justice that does not grant favors or privilege one party above another, justice that preserves a government of laws and not of men. One of the first duties of public officials is to ensure that such impartiality is maintained. Unfortunately, in the state of Texas, both the judiciary and the public officials who oversee it have failed in this fundamental task, sacrificing to political interest the principle of equality before...
...most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." And so it proved on Tuesday when a British judge dismissed a claim of defamation by historian David Irving against Penguin Books and U.S. academic Deborah Lipstadt over her 1994 book that slammed him as a Holocaust denier. Irving had sought to establish serious scholarly credentials for his claims that Hitler had been unaware of the Nazis' "Final Solution" until late in the war, and for his attempts to refute the notion that Jews had been systematically exterminated in the concentration camps, but the judge was unimpressed...
...competent HR person can also help establish some basic personnel policies and practices that are important but often missing at a dotcom, Bernard says. Everyone should have a clear job description, for example, and undergo routine evaluation so that there's no confusion (or surprise pink slips) and the company can make sure it's got all legal bases covered. Rewards should be doled out fairly. Handing out raises or shares "willy-nilly," Bernard says, creates resentment among the staff...
...course, such predictions are based on the assumption that current conditions will prevail into the foreseeable future, and it is quite possible that this assumption is wrong. Anything that would serve to fragment the current huge human population might help re-establish the conditions necessary for future human change. Unfortunately, we would undoubtedly perceive such an event as a terrible disaster, since it would necessarily entail the disappearance of billions of human beings...