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...Harvard's football team players lost their battle in the brutal November cold, a somewhat more reserved Crimson troop sat in the stands of the Yale Bowl resting on the laurels of victory: The Harvard Chess Club had done it again...
...country just beginning to debate universal health care, Americans have long wondered how their allies across the Atlantic have managed to enjoy government benefits far beyond U.S. dreams. Now Western Europeans are discovering a brutal truth: they can not afford them either. Everywhere on the Continent, the public and private welfare system is under assault. Governments are seeking to cut back womb-to-tomb protection for workers and the jobless, for mothers and children, for pensioners, the sick and the disabled. Companies pressed by global competition are trimming benefits. The steadily expanding safety net that had been...
Even those calculations do not complete the picture. Some of those who are unemployed may be loath to admit it. Thomas Mooney, president of the Chamber of Commerce in Rochester, New York, is puzzled over why the area's stated jobless rate is below 5% despite brutal payroll slashing by Eastman Kodak, the region's biggest employer. His conclusion: many Kodak workers were not laid off outright but were coaxed or pushed into early retirement, and "an awful lot of those people become consultants. Whether or not they have any clients, I don't know. But if they...
...fact that ultimately, they are not even sure they know themselves the way they know each other. Albee once said of the conclusion of Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf, "we must try to claw our way into compassion." The play begins and ends in darkness, and after the brutal glare of judgment intervening, it's an act of mercy to gesture towards a time to heal and recollect ourselves...
...until March 31, his self-imposed deadline for withdrawal. But U.S. credibility is undermined by the ambivalence of the American public. Self-imposed deadlines, while reassuring to the electorate, also tell Aidid how much longer he must wait until he is free of American harassment and can resume the brutal status quo ante...