Workplace romances are no new phenomenon. Most offices have undoubtedly seen their share of co-working couples, torrid love affairs and sordid scandals. But in the latest effort to curb the (sometimes) messy aftermath of those relationships, some companies are enforcing “love contracts.” Rather than prohibiting office romances altogether, the love-contract policy requires both participants to sign off that the relationship is consensual, with full understanding of the company’s sexual-harassment policies, Forbes reports. (MORE: Does Online Dating Make It Harder to Find [...]
Daily Archives: March 17, 2012
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USS Enterprise, Armenian genocide and Afghan shooting: Morning roundup
Posted at 08:31 AM ET, 03/12/2012 TheWashingtonPost USS Enterprise, Armenian genocide and Afghan shooting: Morning roundup By Elizabeth Flock The longest and oldest aircraft carrier in the U.S. fleet has set off on its final voyage. The USS Enterprise, which was featured in the film “Top Gun,” departed from Norfolk on Sunday, the Associated Press reports. The USS Enterprise sits at the pier on March 8. (Steve Helber – AP) The ship has a long history. Over the past 50 [...]
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Traveling Forks of Road exhibit hits road
Until now, the story about America’s internal domestic slave trade from the upper eastern seaboard and midwest states to the deep southwestern states via Natchez has been largely untold except for a few articles in periodicals and certain inclusions in several scholarly written history books. Historic Natchez proper was a center of chattel slavery and the selling of enslaved people. With exception of Adams County’s historic courthouse building and maybe a historic building or two in downtown Natchez where auctions [...]
