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...Tiger, The China Syndrome, JFK), he played a businessman in danger of being betrayed by his own best instincts--the sad-clown face of America at the twilight of its imperial reign, the Organization Man whom the organization would crush. Lemmon in his maturity was Job with a white-collar...
...white robes and red stoles. A circle of clergy laid hands on the head of Thaddeus Rockwell Barnum, 44, a priest from South Carolina. When Barnum arose, he was a much changed man. For one thing, he was a bishop. But not of the Episcopal Church USA, whose collar he had worn for 14 years. He was now a missionary--to the U.S.--from the Episcopal Church of Rwanda, pledged against the American church's laxity. In another part of Denver, a former colleague of Barnum's described him and three others who were similarly consecrated last week in rather...
Abdallah's high-profile arrest brought national attention to identity theft, which the FBI says is the nation's fastest-growing white-collar crime. An estimated 500,000 Americans have their identities stolen each year. A sign of the times: at least four insurance companies now offer ID-theft policies. The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, which works with victims, says it takes an average victim of identity theft two years to clear his credit rating. A growing worst-case scenario: "criminal-identity theft," in which thieves use the stolen identity when they are arrested, leaving their victims with a criminal record...
...FORGET RETRAINING. It can make sense for some blue-collar workers, but not for a person with 20 years' experience in one field. Why cast all that aside? Try something new if you like, but whatever you do, don't use retraining as an excuse for not getting out there and interviewing...
...Connor's Archie Bunker - at least for the show's raw, groundbreaking first half-decade - captured a moment that political historians take for granted now but that Americans were only vaguely aware of at the time: the splintering of the classic New Deal Democrat coalition. Blue-collar union guys (like Archie) had depended on FDR and organized labor to secure them contracts, provide Social Security, look after their comfort: in short, to protect them and keep their world stable. Social justice to Archie was a pot roast on their table and an evening sit-down in his favorite chair...