Word: collared
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RHYMEFEST BLUE COLLAR This Chicago M.C. was a janitor, florist and McDonald's cashier before scoring as Kanye West's Jesus Walks co-writer, and his debut brings a touch of working-class humility to a genre desperate for it. On Brand New, Rhymefest and West trade verses, with West rapping about his consumer lust while 'fest advises, "Skip the brand name/ I won't brand you," and he admits that West, who produced, "hook[s] me up as long as I don't ask him for too much." These Days interrupts two verses about the monotony of everyday life...
...against it). But is what's good for Eton good for Britain? For all its recent economic and cultural success, Britain has not left all the old wounds of class division behind it. Contrary to popular belief, social mobility in the country has stalled. The absolute number of white-collar jobs is rising, but research shows that the chance of getting from the bottom 10% of society to the top 10% is dropping. A middle-class child is 15 times more likely to become a middle-class adult than a working-class child is to make it into the middle...
...come to an end, with both men set for sentencing on Sept. 11, you may be as off base as the company's financial statements. Attorneys for Lay and Skilling vow to appeal, and there is precedent - all the way to the Supreme Court - to attack a white-collar fraud conviction based on the fine points of the kind of jury instructions given by Judge Simeon Lake. "A 'willful blindness' instruction is a very good ground [for appeal]," says Houston defense attorney Joel Androphy. Willful blindness, which Judge Lake specifically cited in the jury instructions as a valid factor...
Best way for a guy to get your attention: Unreasonably sketchy behavior paired with a popped collar...
Hayden is the rare officer who managed to earn four stars in the course of a career in military intelligence. A blue-collar kid who drove a taxi to help pay his way through college before joining the Air Force, his first job in 1970 was as an analyst and briefer at the Strategic Air Command in Nebraska. He worked in intelligence in Germany during the Balkans war and in South Korea, and at the National Security Council with Condoleezza Rice during the first Bush Administration. As NSA director, he sometimes dropped in on CIA station chiefs in embassies overseas...