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Matt Williams hits a 3 run homer to put the Arizona Diamondbacks two wins away from their first World Series victory.

The Texas Minimum Wage Act, as amended, establishes a minimum wage for non-exempt employees. The current provisions of the Texas Minimum Wage Act are found in Chapter 62 of the Texas Labor Code. It requires covered employers to provide each employee with a written earnings statement containing certain information about the employee's pay. It designates the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) as the agency responsible for disseminating information about the Act. It contains elaborate provisions concerning agricultural piece rate workers. It exempts a laundry list of employers from its coverage. Finally, the Act provides civil remedies for its violation.The current minimum ...

The pornography train of liberal socialist "values" rolls into town Monday, but to the Los Angeles blue collar, working class hero type, it starts on Sunday. 5 star restaurants all over the city are gearing up and taking reservations for a rerun of the democratic convention of 1960. On Monday night, president Clinton will bid a fond farewell to the party that now places Albert Gore Jr. at its titular head. Tentatively scheduled for a lunch/fundraiser at TRAXX Restaurant in Union Station for Sunday, August 13 are Al and Tipper Gore. A lot of my friends at this restaurant expect ...

Over the past 40 years, this city and this party have shaped--and been shaped by--the sexual revolution. (air sickness bags required past this point) The Playboy Mansion party hounds are hopping with anticipation. An ex-prostitute turned onetime Libertarian party hopeful urging call girls to "minimize their risks" when scoping out the action around Staples Center because "an election year is a very hot year." The L.A. based Advocate,the nations oldest gay and lesbian-oriented newsmagazine, is busily interviewing out and proud convention delagates. And a USC sexologist is declaring that, in Los Angeles next week, America will be seeing its sexual ...

Providence, R.I.--Chelsea Clinton is spending the coming academic quarter away from Stanford University, where she was to begin her senior year, to live in the White House and help her mother's campaign for the Senate in New York, her father(the rapist) said Friday."She's already got way more credits than she needs to graduate (yeah, right.) and she wants to be with her mother and me for these last few months of our time together," President Clinton said.White House spokeswoman Nanda Chitre said that the president was referring to the less than six months he has remaining in the White House. ...

The late Carl Sagan spent a tremendous amount of time trying to figure out why there were no traces of life, save for Earth's, anywhere in the universe. Finally, in his book, Cosmos, he floated the notion that life has sprouted up repeatedly throughout the universe and always followed the same unvarying pattern:evolving over millions of years to the point where it finally destroyed itself and its planet.It is an intriguing and in many ways irresistable theory.And it makes a tremendous amount of sense.(more sense at any rate, than the proposition that ours is the only life that has ever ...