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...know, the longer people stay unemployed, the harder it is for them to find a job. It becomes a vicious circle that keeps at least some from moving back into the workforce and recovering lost financial security. No politician, especially a Democrat, wants to be accused of being heartless, but Obama might take a lesson from President Bill Clinton, who tightened welfare rules - and pushed millions out of a destructive cycle of poverty. Unlike the '90s, these are especially difficult economic times, and no one should underestimate the severity of American job losses or the fact that millions of jobs...
...summing up Angela Merkel's rise through the sexist ranks of German politics, it contradicts itself by using such outdated gender stereotypes as diminutive, frail and kittenish to describe the first female Chancellor of Germany. Though subtle, this sort of language is damaging. One step forward, three steps back. And to think, the writer is a woman...
CONAN O'BRIEN, refusing to accept NBC's plan to push back the start of The Tonight Show to accommodate a new Jay Leno show...
...drove back into Cambridge this past weekend, the river sparkled, glossed over with a sheet of ice. There seemed to be a firmness to the ice, a solidity that beckoned… But beware: DO NOT attempt to walk across the iced-over Charles. If you do so, YOU WILL DIE. (Not actually. That was hyperbole. But really, it’s actually unsafe...
Down 2-0 at the action-packed start of the third, Killorn got things going for the Crimson just 20 seconds into the period when he found the back of the net following a Renssealer turnover forced by Leblanc...