Overtime pay versus time off debate shapes policy
Washington AP reports on proposed comp time as an alternative to overtime pay, weighing benefits for working parents against risks of employer abuse. The piece notes 67 percent of workers are covered by FLSA with time off options limited, while professionals often receive flexible schedules.
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Diana to auction 80 gowns for charity sale
Princess Diana plans a Christie's auction of 90 couture gowns to raise millions for charity. Christie’s says bids expected June 25 with gowns ranging from a white silk chiffon dress to the ink blue gown worn at a 1986 White House dinner.
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Diana
Charles Hindlip
Christie’s Auction House
Princess of Wales
Christie's
Christie’s
White House
Bears fed ice cream on Mount Lemmon porch
Arizona authorities say Patricia Thomas fed bears hand-packed vanilla ice cream on her cabin porch with a photo of a bear. She faces a misdemeanor nuisance charge with up to 30 days in jail and a 500 dollar fine, though her lawyers note the activity was before a May 15 bear feeding ordinance. Authorities warn feeding bears endangers people as a bear mauled a 16-year-old girl at a nearby 4H camp three weeks later.
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Ariz
Patricia Thomas
Mountain Cabin
Ms. Thomas
Mount Lemmon
Gorilla dies after fall at Cleveland zoo
A 10 year old Lowland gorilla named Joe died at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo after tumbling from a 7 foot ledge during a tour. Zoo officials said brain and spinal cord injuries caused the death and zookeepers attempted CPR.
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Joe
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Zoo
Susan Len
Albert Lewandowski
Vatican guides divorce remarriage with abstinence stance
Vatican guidelines urge divorced Catholics who remarry to live in a state of sin and abstain from sex, while advising priests to counsel those not remarried to stay faithful to original vows. The Pontifical Council on the Family emphasizes compassion yet warns against legitimizing new unions and notes these Catholics still belong to the church.
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Vatican
Pontifical Council On
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White House coffee fundraiser aimed at $500000
Documents show campaign chairman Peter Knight proposed a White House Map Room coffee klatsch on August 23 1996 with a goal of raising 500000 and a second coffee event planned to bring in 350000 while noting these were goals not guaranteed figures. Critics say access sales raised concerns about legality and watchdog probes continue.
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White House
Peter S. Knight
Democratic National Committee
Texas
Harold Ackes
Clinton
Ackes
Knight
Taxes threaten Internet leaders in battle over online taxation
Washington reports say state and local taxes could threaten the future of electronic commerce as Internet and technology executives warn that new levies would disrupt interstate commerce. The Clinton administration opposes federal Internet taxation while industry leaders fear local taxes could raise costs for some 30 million users and drive providers from business.
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Washington
Scott Cooper
American Electronics Association
Clinton
Atlanta
L.L. Bean
Maryland
Connecticut
Maine
Du Pont found guilty but mentally ill in Schultz shooting
A Pennsylvania jury found multimillionaire John E. du Pont guilty of third degree murder while also deeming him mentally ill for the Jan 26 1996 fatal shooting of Olympic wrestler David Schultz. The verdict means possible time in a mental hospital with prison only if cured.
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John E. du Pont
du Pont
David Schultz
Brother of club owner a well known abortion doctor ATLANTA
The owner of a bombed gay nightclub in Atlanta had a doctor brother famed for pioneering late term abortions. Dr James T McMahon, who died in 1995, taught obstetrics at Cedars Sinai and helped develop intact dilation and extraction. FBI probes link to the nightclub bombing and a related abortion clinic attack.
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James T. McMahon
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles
United States
Congress
Beverly McMahon
Ms. McMahon
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FBI
The
Army of God
Jay Spadafore
Satur
18 Roanoke College students charged in hazing case
Salem police arrested 14 current Roanoke College students and four former students after they were found holding down four blindfolded peers in Calvins Creek in a suspected hazing, the CIA bonding claim and defunct status noted. The 18 face trespassing charges with 10 hazing and four public drunkenness, while the college probes potential disciplinary actions up to expulsion.
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Roanoke College
Rochee
CIA
Teresa Gereaux
Incorrectly pictured Hotpoint fridge model CTXI8LYZRWH
The article notes that the Hotpoint Refrigerator model CTXI8LYZRWH is wrongly shown with components including crispsers a deli drawer and a freezer shelf prompting clarification of its actual layout and features.
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