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...house will get done, Opie says. He's a humble man, but as you stand on his back deck with him and look across his acres toward the green rise of sweet gums and oaks in the distance, as you look beyond the flats and through the trees to a sliver of the lake, you can feel his pride. A pride that's there with that fire-hydrant job too. Opie will be on the road somewhere, come across a hydrant and have to get out of the car and go look...
Some welfare experts fear that Welfare to Work is being oversold. Peter Edelman, who quit as Clinton's Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services in 1996 because he believed welfare reform was too drastic, grumbles that these programs "are still taking [people] off the top of the deck" and that many of the hardest-to-place welfare recipients are being pushed off the rolls without having much chance of entering the work force. He is concerned that companies will drop their welfare-to-work hires when the economy slumps and workers become cheaper and more plentiful. "These people...
...anything be done? Robinson is determined to try. At a visit to Chicago's Wrigley Field, Robinson lobbied everyone from managers to the organist and public-address announcer: Get those batters moving out of the on-deck circle as soon as possible; have bat boys ready in order to bring the batter a new bat if he breaks...
...screenplay. But for Leonard and his smart adapters--director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Frank--that's just a promising beginning. There's a tricky diamond heist to be not quite perpetrated and many wild cards to be dealt into surprising, plausible play. Notable jokers in this deck include Ving Rhames and Steve Zahn as Foley's accomplices--the former prone to careless confession, the latter a blitzed former hippie not sharp enough for the criminal life--and a comically menacing Don Cheadle making Albert Brooks' white-collar jailbird understandably nervous...
While you're at Copley Square, take a minute to visit the tall buildings. The John Hancock Tower reflects the older buildings around it. The tallest building in Boston, it has a sightseeing deck and museum on its top floor...