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...gigs he took for the sole purpose of saving money for graduate school. He was a night watchman at a public beach, an assistant wedding videographer and a staffer at an amusement park, managing various carnival games. The last position served as the inspiration for the new coming-of-age comedy Adventureland, which opens April 3. It's about an intellectual, awkward young man named James (Jesse Eisenberg) who spends a summer in the '80s at a family-owned amusement park, falling in love with another employee, Em (Kristen Stewart), who herself is dealing with the stress surrounding the death...
...They can’t make [budget deficits] go away by cutting out cookies and coffees. They do need to get rid of personnel,” said Beth Baiter, a 69-year-old staff assistant at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. “Given my age, I would probably be one of the early ones to be laid off.”Despite the stated voluntary nature of the retirement program, Kaufman said he would have felt subtly threatened by the possibility of layoffs had he not accepted the package.“I have more years...
...squad still comprises unpaid amateurs (even in South Africa, they are not drawing match fees but a $50 per diem provided by the generosity of the ICC), many of whom look quite a bit older than their listed age. The Afghan National Cricket Academy in Kabul consists of four battered training nets and one bowling machine, a piece of equipment used by serious players to practice shots. When the power cuts out, which happens frequently in the Afghan capital, the machine can't be operated. These are the wretched resources used by the Afghans to compete against nations that have...
...started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp. In this case, I mean the high-minded part literally. And so, a deal: give us drugs, after a certain age - say, 80 - all drugs, any drugs we want. In return, we will give you our driver's licenses. (I mean, can you imagine how terrifying a nation of decrepit, solipsistic 90-year-old boomers behind the wheel would be?) We'll let you proceed with your lives - much of which...
...serve each year from Nepal's poverty-stricken Himalayan hills. Candidates, scrambling for a few hundred spots, have been known to try to fake their way; in 2008, nearly 500 false applications were detected, and dozens of candidates - required to be between 17 and 21 - fibbed about their age...