Davis vetoes tests to ID dads
Despite a last-minute lobbying effort by South Bay and statewide supporters, Gov. Gray Davis on Friday vetoed a bill that would have allowed some men to dispute paternity with a DNA test after they are ordered to pay child support.
That’s right – men falsely named as fathers and hit with [...]
Three related items. First, the speech Harvard president Laurence Summers gave on campus anti-semitism. Second, Campus-Watch.org, a website set up to watch anti-Semitic views on the part of American professors. And last, the response of Judith Butler, queen of American academic feminists and signatory to the UC Anti-Israel Divestment Petition and the FFIPP Anti-Israel Petition: [...]
Extreme shares hit record low amid revenue doubts
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 27 (Reuters) – Shares of battered network equipment maker Extreme Networks Inc. (NasdaqNM:EXTR – News) fell to a record low on Friday and closed down almost 40 percent on the week as investor concerns about its revenue goal heightened, according to analysts.
That had to hurt.
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Teddy Kennedy want to dump it all in the lap fo the UN (Kennedy Criticizes Bush War Stance on Iraq):
But Kennedy said today the first aim of U.S. policy should be to get U.N. weapons inspectors back into Iraq, and said the U.N. Security Council resolution should authorize the use of force that would be [...]
America’s dumbest member of Congress, Barbara Lee, offers something Al Gore couldn’t in her criticism of the President’s Iraq war plan: an alternative. And what a great and practical one it is. Read Alternatives to War for yourself:
We all agree that the world would be better off without Hussein in power, but we would be [...]
Mercury News | 09/26/2002 | H-1B issues going to court
For years U.S. engineers have grumbled that foreign engineers on work visas were getting their jobs. Now, for the first time, U.S. workers are filing formal complaints with the government and in court, charging that foreign guest workers are replacing them during the downturn.
The complaints contend [...]
Institute on Globalization at Santa Clara University
THOMAS FRIEDMAN
“How Globalization Is Changing Our World”, September 25, 2002, 7 p.m., Leavey Activities Center
This event is presented in cooperation with the World Affairs Council and the Commonwealth Club, Silicon Valley. Please note that this event is free and no tickets are being issued. We recommend that you arrive [...]
Just for fun, take this little test: name the two states with the worst business climate, and then the two with the best. When you’ve made your picks, check the survey in today’s Wall St. Journal by clicking “MORE…”.
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The anti-American and anti-Israel views of Gerhard Schroder have emboldened the slumbering Nazi movement in Germany, according to the Times of London:
The popular crusade against confrontation with Iraq, which has galvanised support for the Social Democrats, has taken on an anti-American dimension, earning Herr Schr?der some unwanted support.
The latest issue of the Iraqi weekly [...]
The human cost of P.C. coffee details the costs to coffee farmers of getting the spiffy new shade-grown, organic, and fair-trade certifications required by Berkeley’s hippies:
Five years ago, people in the cities began talking about a certification process that would guarantee better prices. Cooperative members heard that if they worked really hard to adopt new [...]
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