Allow me an international aside:

Within hours, the much anticipated soccer a/k/a football match begins between Germany and Greece in the UEFA Euro 2012 tournament. The backdrop, of course, is one full of tension between the nations as to complaints over Germany’s insistence as to Greek austerity measures while it remains in the Eurozone.

So, speaking of austerity measures, I found it almost humorous that while in the throes of an economic recession, the Court of Justice of the European Union released yesterday its decision in a case arising out of Spain that a worker who becomes sick during his annual paid leave is entitled to an additional period of leave of the same duration as that of his sick leave...

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