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Published Letters: 652 Editor's Choice: 11
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@I envy us
[Read the article: Breasts at work]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Companies allow this because it's the law. Woman goes on maternity leave she gets a year off, or she can take six months and the husband can take six months for paternity leave (how's that for enlightened!).
Who pays for it? both the company and the government (well all of us in reality through taxes).
Do people pick up the slack? Sometimes yes, but most often a company will hire people to cover for the maternity leave. If it's a profession (say nursing or occupational therapy for instance) it's actually pretty great for younger people to get their foot into the door.
and whether the job is important is a moot point - it's the law. Sure there are people who could theoretically abuse this system - by say, getting a new job while they know they're pregnant, but these types of things are kind of inevitable, and besides, it's not really a good way to get ahead in your career when you get back now is it?
Our former Liberal government implemented this about 5 years ago (or so I recall)...and we ain't gone broke yet ;)
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All Arm Team?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I like that idea!
how about Shawon Dunston at Short?
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MySpace?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dude, that's sooo 2005. ;)
the story kinda reminds me of that one about Disney suing the pre-school for using unauthorized cut outs of Mickey and Minnie (but that might be an urban legend).
MLB + Rupert Murdoch = a baaad situation.
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a couple of points
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]First, "mattmclain" - I think you're missing the issue with your contention that The Yankees play The Royals etc etc. I think the point is that the big college programs choose who to play out of conference, and they purposely choose weak teams in order to pad their stats.
Second, as an outsider to the sport (Canadian, we don't have athletic scholarships, which means Canadian college football is not really a big deal, or all that great - my alma mater just lost their 43rd game in a row...GO VARSITY BLUES! ;) I can see the appeal of the occasional huge upset, but I'd think that schedules packed with meaningful games would make it EVEN more exciting... I seem to recall pretty much everyone losing their minds over the game last year where No. 1 played No. 2. I'd think that that sort of buildup excitement is better than the after-the-fact excitement of hearing about a huge upset.
Third, again as an outsider, this need for the elite schools to be undefeated ends up making the rankings look pretty arbitrary. I know, I know, there's some sort of complicated calculus(tm) based on strength of schedule, points scored and allowed etc etc which decides the rankings. But for someone like me, who starts paying attention to the sport around december (actually who am I kidding, I watch the odd bowl game) I see nos. 1-20 all being undefeated and really have no idea who is actually the better team. In the NFL you can look at the standings and tell the contenders from the weaker teams, here you can't (I suspect because they all pad their schedules with very weak teams). If there were more big time games, then it would follow that the undefeated teams really are the top dogs in the country, and two losses wouldn't doom you.
anyways, I think I'm actually going to try to get into College football this year...now to figure out a team to root for.....
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ummmm....
[Read the article: What do you call a female cuckold?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was under the impression that there was already a word for someone like Suzanne Craig.
Beard.
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my submission
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]For the funniest typo double-entendre ever:
"Well he also used to say that our deficate was gonna balloon...it has? That much?" - JbinMo
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the cheating thing.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hate to wade into this, but if you really think you're being intellectually honest by equating videotaping signals with taking steroids then you got some serious issues with reality.
What's the actual problem here? The use of videotape? I tend to agree with the earlier poster who said it probably has more to do with the NFL wanted to keep the rights to all video footage of their product.
I mean, it just seems so obvious to me that teams try to pick up on other's signals. Why else do coaches hide their mouths behind clipboards? Besides, what is stopping a team from putting a person with binoculars in one of those media booths directly behind the opposing teams bench and give him a walkie talkie? I seem to remember hearing a few years back about lip-reading...should this be illegal too?
tempest, meet teapot.
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Oh for pete's sake!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please, everyone filled with righteous indignation over this tempest in a teapot, kindly do the world a favour and get over it!
I mean if you really want to hate The Patriots then why aren't you screaming on high about Harrison's suspension for HGH? An infraction that rightly warrants moral outrage. This videotaping thing is so asinine that it really hardly warrants mention.
(heaven help me - I'm using Bill Simmons to prove my point...my God have mercy on my soul)
Did anyone happen to see this little link from 2002?
"Our guy keeps a pair of binoculars on their signal-callers every game," says Broncos coach Mike Shanahan. "With any luck, we have their defensive signals figured out by halftime. Sometimes, by the end of the first quarter."
so where was the outrage, the HORROR, at Shanahan's comments? Oh right - nowhere. Apparently it's the video that makes this repellent.
full disclosure - I'm not a Pats fan, they never did anything for me (other than Viniteiri's FG against the Rams won me my office square pool). In fact, I kind of hate them - but mostly because my most irritating cousins come from Boston. But with all this inanity, I find myself kind of pulling for them now...