Reason Sought in Linguist Firings
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Lawmakers who say the military has kicked out 58 Arabic language experts because they were gay want the Pentagon to explain how it can afford to let the valuable specialists go
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Ministers should consider forcing foreign workers or spouses to learn English, an expert body says.
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The FBI never adequately investigated complaints by a fired contract linguist who alleged shoddy work and possible espionage inside the bureau's translator program, even though evidence and witnesses supported her, the Justice Department's senior oversight official said Friday.
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Racial animosity and revenge are among the possible motives in the arson fires in a subdivision in southern Maryland on Dec. 6, a spokesman for federal investigators said Sunday.
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Journalists applying to the Commission on Presidential Debates for credentials to cover the presidential debates are being asked to provide their racial data, a move that has some upset.
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Was she casting spells or teaching spelling? In an unfolding trial, lawyers are debating a former teacher's claims in a $2 million federal lawsuit that she was improperly fired from Hampton Bays elementary school because administrators and others thought she was a witch.
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Why do well-meaning laws backfire?
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One angry word begets another, and one Fool tries to sort out who's closer to the truth.
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Six fired U.S. attorneys testified on Capitol Hill  yesterday that they had separately been the target of complaints, improper telephone calls and thinly veiled threats from a high-ranking Justice Department official  or members of Congress, both before and after they were abruptly removed from their jobs....
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The latest in ghastly corporate gaffes: mass firings by email.
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DETROIT - From wardrobe malfunctions to erectile dysfunction, it's been a tough year all around for the guardians of English - language purists from blue, red and battleground states who long to say "You're fired!" to offensive words and phrases.
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Outside, they're calling for his head. Politicians, authors and columnists, and a few former generals. They are an angry, noisy bunch. They say he should have quit or been fired long ago. They say he's to blame for what is happening now in Iraq, didn't listen, and must be held to account.
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A leading Senate Democrat asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Wednesday to clear up apparent conflicts in testimony from Gonzales and former top Justice Department officials about the firing of federal prosecutors and other matters.
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Several doctors and a group supporting English as the nation&#39;s official language filed a lawsuit Monday challenging a Clinton-era executive order requiring federally funded
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There are times when having an English degree comes in handy for looking at the business world. This is one of those times because the only way to grasp the essence of the Hewlett-Packard and "backdated" stock options scandals is to speak in plain English instead of using euphemisms that obscure...
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SAN DIEGO Aug. 31, 2004 - Several doctors and a group supporting English as the nation&#39;s official language filed a lawsuit Monday challenging a Clinton-era executive order requiring federally funded hospitals
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The trouble with trying to explain the meaning of these acronyms is that it requires using language that confuses rather than clarifies the situation.