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...given most of The Women's women jobs (notably Annette Bening's Sylvie, a hard-pressed magazine editor). She seems to want to convert her version of the play into a tract for our times; you know, something about the difficulties of having a family and a career simultaneously...
...Thanks to Kinsley?s essay, i now know why I never progressed beyond 15 years as a low-level city official and 55 years in a moderately successful broadcasting career. My father worked hard to make a decent living. He had no alcohol, drug or gambling problems, and he was home every night for a home-cooked meal. My mother stayed home and focused on keeping a good house and raising her two children. My two children are doing well in their chosen work. What chance do I have? Don Riggs, Bellevue, Washington...
...years that new tankers were needed yesterday, Gates made it clear Wednesday that's not quite the case. Stepped-up funding for the aging tanker fleet, he said, will ensure they're kept safely flying until the Air Force finally gets its act together. Even Lichte, who began his career flying KC-135s more than three decades ago, conceded as much. "The 135 is doing pretty good," he said. "For an old airplane it's hanging in there...
...school was a huge success. He arrived in 1992, fresh out of Harvard Law School, to juggle teaching courses in constitutional law and race theory. Within a few years, he had become a rock-star professor with hordes of devoted students, written a popular book and launched a political career as an Illinois state senator...
...1990s, however, Obama had published Dreams from My Father and was contemplating a career in politics. Baird, by then the law school's dean, recalls Obama walking into his office one day to announce that he planned to run for the Illinois state senate. "It's a bad idea," Baird recalls telling Obama. "You have great talents. You should think about joining the faculty." He recalls Obama saying, "That's not who I am. I want to try politics." Their arrangement: Obama was to become a senior lecturer, a title that put him on the same tier with accomplished attorneys...