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...Companies are using the economic climate to squeeze dollars out of employees. American workers need to fight back while there's still time. Boycott firms that outsource work to India. Demand to have your business handled by an American employee. And organize, organize, organize. The days of white-collar interests vs. blue-collar interests are gone. If you do not own the company you work for, you need a union, and you need one now! Let's show these CEOs what American labor is really worth. ANN CRUTE New York City...
...celebrates the Iraqi dictator: SADDAM WILL STAY FOREVER. BUSH IS A DOG, BLAIR IS A PROSTITUTE, says a scrawling in Tikrit. "I think it's important that we capture or kill Saddam," Bremer tells TIME, "because it affects the political psychology of the place." Failure to collar the fallen dictator, he says, is "one of the reasons that we are now seeing a renaissance of the Baathists in small groups." So where is Saddam? The problem, says Bremer, is that "we are not getting actionable--timely and accurate--intelligence. It's a hard...
...solve case is "catching a stone whodunit"), and he's abetted by the subtle performances of regulars like Sonja Sohn and Wendell Pierce. Even crooked union boss Frank Sobotka (Chris Bauer) is more pitiable than loathsome--he's a dinosaur and knows it--and his underlings are the blue-collar counterpart to last season's no-hope drug soldiers, who are on the scene this year too. If The Wire depicts a war on crime, it is World War I, its weary sides facing off in the trenches, with little hope of victory or reward. The cops soldier on anyway...
...remorse, could get her millions of fans once again wanting to walk in her garden clogs, buying a sympathy gallon of aubergine paint, or gluing themselves to the TV to watch her make cocoa from imported beans, in much the way Hillary got the blue-haired and blue-collar ladies of upstate New York to vote...
...that time, Harvard students were no longer the prep-school gentlemen of Harvard’s earlier days. Raised during the Great Depression, many students came to Harvard after serving in the military and many came from middle-class homes, or were the children of blue-collar workers...