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...your company has just gone through layoffs and you didn't lose your job, you might feel relieved. Or you might feel so horrible, you almost wish you didn't work there anymore, either...
...stick,” Rogers said. “I’m not going to lie; I kinda fanned on the first one, but [the puck] luckily came back to me and I was able to slide it in.” Co-captain Jimmy Fraser almost doubled the lead minutes after the first goal when his shot from the blue line hit the crossbar. The Crimson continued to dominate play during the first period, attempting a total of 20 shots as compared with Union’s 11 efforts. The second period, however, proved to be a different...
...ever been to being down and out. Expectations were high coming into the weekend, as Harvard was poised to vault itself into the upper echelons of the Ivy standings. After two crippling defeats, the team is left guessing what to do next. “It’s almost like we need to [re]-learn how the win,” senior guard Drew Housman said. “We’re always expecting a close game. We need to play hard for [the full] forty minutes and let the rest follow.” The story...
...Thirty companies laid off almost 200,00 people in January. Tens of thousand of smaller firms which the credit crisis is likely to hurt badly probably let workers go at a much more rapid pace. No one would be terribly surprised if total unemployment rose by nearly one million people in the first month of the year...
History has created a culture of distrust between communities and cops. The response to the shooting revives the sentiments of almost 40 years ago, when the Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland to defend against police brutality. Many minorities—especially black males—are raised to be completely submissive to police officers, not out of respect for authority, but for fear of their lives. Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates notes: “If you wonder why blacks seem particularly susceptible to ‘rumors’ and ‘conspiracy theories...