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...other hand, the American Association of Retired Persons finds age discrimination still "pervasive." In a not-yet-published study, it dispatched pairs of "testers," one 57 and one 32, to apply for 102 entry-level sales or management positions. Result: though they presented equal credentials, says AARP, the older applicants received less favorable responses 41.2% of the time. Three-quarters of those responses occurred before the older applicants had even been granted an interview. Sally Dunaway, an AARP lawyer, says bias is hurting "people at younger and younger ages. It used...
...First, the very notion of spin implies a kind of moral neutrality in which any issue is subject to a variety of interpretations, all of equal legitimacy. My spin is that two plus two is four; your spin is that two plus two is five. After this break, we'll be joined by a woman who says that two plus two is three. Second, like drug addiction it gets worse over time because we build up a tolerance. Artifice that seemed outrageous during the Carter Administration seems routine today--not because the Clinton folks are inherently less honest, but just...
...silence" -- but when a guy who was in the backseat realizes they're all going to sink together for something he had no control over, self-preservation takes over. "One person has the controls of the plane," says Thompson, "and even though military tradition holds that they bear equal responsibility for situational awareness, the guy flying the plane is culpable." After Seagraves' immunity deal, the two front-seat crewmen were charged with obstruction of justice and conspiracy for allegedly destroying the videotape. In exchange for avoiding charges including negligent homicide, Seagraves will tell what was on the erased (not blank...
...surprised by all this? I was. Clinton has usually been equal to the moment. He has never been eloquent, merely verbal, and he has never--how to put it?--stunned us with his brilliance. But he has often been shrewd, and he has always shown the skills of the survivor. He has always, too, acted the public part of the presidency with ease and burly vanity. The other night on TV I saw a videotape of Clinton walking along the White House lawn, his hands clasped thoughtfully behind his back, his face a shaded mask of contemplation. In physical attitude...
Fortunately, all lies are not created equal. St. Augustine enumerated nine categories of lying, several of which would go into the category we call white lies. Such benign falsehoods make the world go round. No. 6, for example, is a lie that harms no one but helps someone else. This is when you tell your friend who is getting chemotherapy for breast cancer that she looks marvelous...