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Captains of the state’s retirement, health care and education systems round out the top 10 highest paid employees in the 2008 Journal of Salaries, an annual list of all positions created by state statute.
The only other top earner with a salary of more than $200,000 is Dr. Don Williamson, the state health officer. Williamson earns [...]

IF change is as good as a holiday then why do my family holidays invariably end up in the same place? If we go overseas, we go to New York. If we go to the beach, we go to Rosedale on the NSW south coast. If we go camping, we go to Treachery on the [...]

Then the Yankees drafted Hughes%26#8217;s son, also named Phil, in 2004. Hughes reveled in the Red Sox%26#8217; championship that season, but then made a break with the team of his youth.%26#8220;We just said, %26#8216;Well, all the Red Sox memorabilia comes down off the walls now, as long as you%26#8217;re a Yankee,%26#8217; %26#8221; Phil Sr., [...]

Vegetable growing is a passion with people from all walks of life, all races, all ages, and the plots they cultivate range from large country gardens to allotments, to tiny urban patches, to window boxes. For me, it is a very personal passion. In the 1970s my husband and I and our two young children [...]

The government could face strike action in every school earmarked to become an academy as union opposition to the privately sponsored schools increases.The NASUWT teaching union yesterday pledged to ballot on strikes in every school where staff oppose imminent plans to become academies - up to 110 in total.The head of a second union, the [...]

The teacher, research supervisor and scholar, Professor Paul O’Higgins, who has died aged 80, inspired and supported generations of law students in Cambridge, Dublin and London. While Cambridge was his adopted home for 50 years, it was in Ireland that his heart remained. He was anxiously cheering Ireland’s narrow rugby win against Italy only days [...]

THE QUESTION My workplace seems to be populated with many nosy people who seem intent on forcing their own views on the rest of the world.One of my colleagues is a fervently religious woman who is not content practising her faith on her own time, but instead interrogates her co-workers in their cubicles and preaches [...]

So, whatever you happen to think of Oxford and Cambridge, you have to quite admire their marketing techniques. The outreach programme they run to encourage more pupils from state schools is held not in a 14th-century chapel or a medieval dining hall, but the Emirates stadium, Arsenal’s home ground in north London.It’s a bit like [...]

Two years ago, Emma was getting up at 3am to travel to her job as an office cleaner. Moving between different foster homes during her GCSE year had disrupted her education, and her exam results weren’t as good as anticipated. She was keen to return to college to improve her qualifications but, as a care-leaver [...]

Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) — William F. Buckley Jr., the
syndicated columnist and intellectual whose studied mannerisms,
verbal flourishes and polemics energized the American
conservative movement for a half-century, has died. He was 82.
Buckley died [...]