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...invade a country and they go ballistic. They're a funny people. I tell my London friends that they are being cheated. I rage about the cost of public transport and inform them that in many parts of the world one does not need to buy a ?121-a-year TV license from the government in order to watch the Eurovision Song Contest and re-runs of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. When they look at me, I can hear the Sousa march playing in their heads, but they try to be sympathetic. London can indeed be bloody expensive...
...walked away from a $3.6 million three-year contract with the Cardinals because there was another uniform he wanted to wear. In a culture obsessed with money, there's something hard to believe about a person who turns down that kind of offer for an $18,000-a-year job with the Army. And in a culture obsessed with fame, we hardly know what to do with a guy who doesn't even capitalize on the story. From the minute he decided to sign up, Tillman refused interview requests. What he did wasn't a publicity stunt. It wasn...
After holding the three-month job interview from hell, DONALD TRUMP picked a winner on his NBC show, The Apprentice: Chicago entrepreneur BILL RANCIC, 32, whose new, $250,000-a-year job is to manage construction of a 90-story luxury riverfront building in his hometown. Upon edging out his rival Kwame Jackson, Rancic declared, "The American Dream is still alive." They used to say the same thing about the Donald's hair...
Jared Bernstein, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, says the frustration of these educated workers is what gives the debate over outsourcing such intensity. "There is no safety net for $80,000-a-year programmers," he says, and perhaps there shouldn't be. Their education is supposed to provide that. Bernstein says that after the factory closings of the 1980s and the emergence of the "knowledge economy," many liberals and conservatives alike had reached a consensus that manufacturing jobs could not be saved but the "lab coat" jobs would always stay here. "Now that vision is under siege," Bernstein...
...round selection in this year’s draft, United chose Ara. With its initial pick, the first one of the draft, United took 14-year old sensation Freddy Adu, who is now both the league’s youngest player and highest paid with a reported $500,000-a-year contract...