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Torture Suit Against Rumsfeld Can Go Forward: Fed. Judge

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Ever wanted to know what’s in a reality TV contract? Well, a glimpse into MTV’s Real World contract, signed by its participants, seems to indicate that as a reality TV star, you’re signing away a lot of your rights.

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Real World Cast Member Contract: MTV is Not Liable for Your STDs

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Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be tried before a military commission at Guantanamo Bay. The move, which is in direct contradiction to the Obama Administration’s long-held position on Guantanamo Bay, comes after..

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9/11 Mastermind Will Have Guantanamo Bay Trial

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“Hostile work environment” is an often misused term. There’s a tendency to use it to describe a situation in which a supervisor simply dislikes an employee and decides to make her miserable until she quits. However, the concept of a…

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Has My Boss Created Hostile Work Environment?

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After being forced to model in skimpy employee uniforms, fifteen middle-aged cocktail waitresses were fired from Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City for not projecting the right image. In other words, they were no longer sexy enough. If you don’t…

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Waitresses Fired: Skimpy Uniforms Didn’t Fit

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On Wednesday, Judge Susan Nelson will hear a motion for a preliminary injunction requested by the players in the NFL lockout antitrust suit. The motion requests that the judge enjoin the NFL from continuing its lockout, permitting players to return..

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NFL Lockout in Judge Susan Nelson’s Hands

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Is ICE cooling off? The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are offering art classes, bingo and continental breakfast on the weekends at several privately owned detention centers and many immigrant advocates are pleased, the Houston Chronicle reports. The changes are a part…

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement Ease Security Measures

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Who would have guessed that it is such a cutthroat, hardball industry? After all, we are talking muffins here. But to former Thomas’ English Muffins exec, Chris Botticella, it is down and dirty and threatening his new employment opportunity over…

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A Lot of Bread: Muffin Exec Stopped from Moving Jobs

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Pay up or go to jail. That’s the situation American debtors are increasing facing after debt collectors utilize local police to collect on debts

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Debtors’ Prisons Making a Comeback in America?

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Guantanamo Bay detainees

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