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...even temp positions that pay far less than the jobs they held before the layoffs. Others reveal a growing sense of fear simply in their voices when talking on the phone with Tracey, who says that most people eventually find some kind of employment. "It's not completely a black hole here," says Tracey, whose firm has a database of about 1,000 job seekers. "It's just taking a long time, even for the best people...
...Obama immediately drove to see his ailing grandmother, the woman he affectionately calls "Toot," at her apartment on Beretania Street, before retiring to a hotel on the city's touristy Waikiki strip. By daylight, he was again at the Beretania Street apartment, emerging at one point, dressed in a black polo shirt, dark-glasses and flip-flops, walking pensively and unsmiling along the unsteady and overgrown the sidewalk on nearby Young Street before the crowding press forced him back into the privacy of his grandmother's home. He did not issue any statement and did not speak to journalists hungry...
Georgie Fruit is a middle-aged, sexually ambiguous, black, ex-con, former funk band front man—and a figment of the imagination of 34-year-old married father Kevin Barnes. Now, 11 years into the recording career of second-era Elephant 6 group Of Montreal, Barnes is still trying to find the right way to get out whatever the fuck is inside his head. But for anyone who’s been following the Kevin Barnes genre-bending, gender-bending bender, “Skeletal Lamping” will feel just about right, if a little bit disappointing...
...After seeing Brit as a schoolgirl, chair dancer, flight attendant, spy, and anime character, her new video for “Womanizer” features the only thing left: the Ugly One. Yes, Britney as “office girl” is actually so ugly in a black bob wig, librarian glasses, and bright red lipstick that you can almost hear her saying, “These shoes rule.” Dear Lord, she’s run through so many sexual types that she now must resort to making ugliness itself into a fetish...
...Lily Owens, played by Dakota Fanning, who in the first scene of the movie frightfully awakens from a nightmare of her mother’s death. We are introduced to the ensuing mystery of who her mother really was. Lily lives with her widowed father (Paul Bettany) and black housekeeper, Rosaleen (Jennifer Hudson), in a small, dry, dusty town in South Carolina during the height of the Civil Rights movement. The relationship between the three is all too familiar: Lily’s father is abusive and distant while Rosaleen acts as a surrogate parent. After a violent clash with...