"Part of having your journalists on these platforms is giving them the freedom to be a normal human being, not a robot, a PR machine or a slave to the wire, " he blogged.

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Unless you are one of the first Americans, a Native American, we are all descended from folks who came from someplace else -- whether they arrived on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, whether they came through Ellis Island or crossed the Rio Grande.

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It is not a sacrifice to die a free man rather than live as a slave or live in terror.

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"From a labor perspective, we want there to be remedies in place for corrections to be made, not to yell, scream, threaten or treat the person basically like a slave, " said Greg Sorozan, president of NAGE, which represents about 12, 000 public employees.

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The Labor Ministry is known to slap companies for slave labor conditions whenever a company or its outsourcing partner does not provide adequate equipment for its staffers.

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If you are moved to don a horned helmet yourself, dressing up in marauding Viking style (or chained slave style) is part of the Dublinia experience too -- perfect for kids.

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Often slaves were freed upon the death of the master or mistress, whose will might include legacies of money to enable the manumitted slave to wed and earn a living.

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