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...rumpled polemicist - are unlikely bedfellows anyway. But politics has always created alliances of convenience; for now the three share a goal. And they have more in common than is evident at first glance; Moore plays the outsider, unkempt and loud, but he does share two things with Edwards: blue-collar roots and an unapologetically populist stance. Moore's radical sarcasm differs from Edwards' sunny, Clintonian bonhomie, but both are effective. Moore's bold, baldly manipulative film was already the biggest-grossing documentary ever in the U.S. when it began rolling out across Europe last week. It's too soon...
...outcry over U.S. corporations' hiring white-collar labor abroad grows ever louder, an expanding body of research and analysis suggests that a job gained overseas isn't necessarily a job lost at home. According to a study by Matthew Slaughter, an associate professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, during the decade ending in 2001, U.S. firms hired nearly 3 million workers abroad, up 42%. At the same time, companies also expanded their U.S. work forces by almost 5.5 million, or 31%. Often, "as firms expand or sell in foreign markets, they have to hire people...
Under pressure from foreign competition, and with the antitrust lawyers looking the other way, Wall Street tumbled into a fever of mergers, leveraged buyouts, massive restructurings and corporate raids. It was painful, it was chaotic, it hurt a lot of workers, both blue and white collar. But in the end it seems to have produced a more competitive economy, with companies more nimble, more responsive to customers and more innovative, even if their workers felt less secure or loyal. The 1980s shakeout helped prime the economy for its leap into the high-productivity, technology-fueled boom of the next decade...
...worry, guys. You can find that elsewhere! At the WB, Levin announced a block of "male comedy" sketch shows from Jeff Foxworthy and Drew Carey. On Foxworthy's Blue Collar TV, a comic marvels at women's ability to withstand hours of labor: "I give up on a poop after 20 minutes," he says. And ABC picked up Savages, a sitcom about a widower and his sons living blissfully in a pigsty. As the beer commercials tell us, the quickest way to men's hearts is through insulting stereotypes...
...Green Screen" is an improv comedy show in which the scenarios acted out by the comedians are illustrated by animators. It's for everybody who loved "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" but found it too taxing on the imagination. Jeff Foxworthy, meanwhile, returns to the screen in "Blue Collar TV," a standup comedy/parody show on which he will continue to prove that redneck jokes are not offensive as long as you pay an actual Southerner to make them for you. On "Shacking Up," Fran Drescher plays a mother who shocks her 25-year-old son by moving in with...