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Nice Work if You Can Get It Peter Gumbel's article on increasing employment problems across Western Europe [Oct. 3] perfectly highlighted the plight of a bleak, stagnant, not so efficient European labor market. The reasons lie in outdated and wrongheaded policies implemented by local governments that can't cope with the fast and ever changing rules of the marketplace. In addition, there seems to be an increasing number of young people who are immature, not motivated enough or simply not ready to compete and find a decent job. Discouraged, they rely on poorly paid, insecure jobs or, even worse...
Chabrol also learned from Clouzot, whose bleak, brilliant melodramas--Le Corbeau, Diabolique, Quai des Orfèvres--allow for few heroes. Most of the characters are a blend of victim and villain. The Wages of Fear is a tale of four desperate men trucking a ton of nitroglycerin across bumpy South American roads. It's a brutal ride, relentlessly tense and informed by Clouzot's stop-watch timing and a tone that effortlessly juggles machismo and misanthropy...
...first-time visitor, facing the Carpenter Center’s bleak concrete facade may be a bit daunting, but once on the fourth floor, entering the “Post-Brush†microcosm means embracing a captivating fantasia of color, chaos, and creation...
...North's willingness to trade its nuclear arsenal for massive amounts of aid. But any such deal would necessitate an influx of more foreign experts?including weapons inspectors. If Pyongyang has decided reform and engagement with the outside world are too risky, the prospects for a settlement are bleak...
...high-profile murder has raised fears in Rome that the growing brazenness of 'Ndrangheta could escalate into a bloody war against national authority, like the one that erupted in the 1980s when the Cosa Nostra sought to tighten its hold on Sicilian society and politics. Life is already bleak on this southern tip of Italy's boot-shaped peninsula. The honest people of Calabria struggle just to get by in one of Europe's most economically depressed corners, where nearly 25% of families live below the poverty line. Meanwhile, the region's mob bosses are ruthlessly expanding their empire. Once...