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Experts routinely warn companies not to get caught with lax policies, which can enrage juries and inflate settlement costs. Consultants' on-site training is usually straightforward: if what you're thinking even vaguely involves sex, keep it to yourself. Ballard poses hypotheticals such as, What if someone gets the Victoria's Secret catalog at work? "If someone makes a comment about that, you get rid of it," she says. Parallax, her company based in Santa Monica, Calif., teaches that one complaint is enough to change office policy--and such advice is becoming the standard in business schools and financial newspapers...
...these new plans with a huge payoff from a tobacco [lawsuit] settlement," Riley said. "Soon our kids will have a little more Shakespeare in their blood and no more of the nicotine from tobacco...
...charm to smooth Benjamin Netanyahu?s ruffled feathers when he visits Israel next month to encourage the Mideast peace process. The Israeli leader yesterday canceled dinner with British foreign secretary Robin Cook -- refusing even a public handshake -- after Mr. Cook met with a Palestinian leader near a disputed Israeli settlement in Arab East Jerusalem...
...Cook was trying to relay the European Union?s belief that such Israeli settlements imperil the peace process,? says TIME London correspondent Helen Gibson. ?But he appears to have handled it really badly, and to have created major problems ahead of Blair?s visit next month.? Then again, with Netanyahu insisting that such settlement activity is non-negotiable, there may have been no diplomatic way for Cook to make his point...
RUPERT MURDOCH Bans book, blames staff, pays settlement, eats crow...