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...Office of Career Services has deemed Friday’s Career Forum and International Experience Fair a recession-time success, after 125 employers participated in the annual event, a 36-percent increase over the previous recession in 2002, according to OCS assistant director Deborah Carroll. This year, OCS combined the traditional job fair with the study abroad-focused International Experience Fair, which drew an additional 55 organizations, some of which offered employment opportunities to graduating seniors and graduate students who are poised to enter the job market during the worst economic recession since the 1930s. The Career Forum typically kicks...
...these caricatures. And Larry was made to be intimidated, ignored, abused. He is a passive protagonist whose plight earns him as much pity as sympathy. So A Serious Man, which has its world premiere tonight at the Toronto Film Festival before opening in theaters Oct. 2, is a rare event in movies, where action is character. It's certainly rare for the Coens, in that this is one fable - Miller's Crossing might be another - that is worth taking seriously. (See the 10 best Coen brothers moments...
Friedrich's argument, by contrast, was direct and sure of its moral clarity. Throughout the event, he peppered his arguments with colorful quotations from celebs and intellectuals alike...
...Though it has been painful for him, Whitfield's lost job should have had little effect beyond his immediate family. One lost job is a microscopic event in the massive organism of the U.S. economy. In good times, America sheds 2.5 million jobs a month but creates nearly 3 million new ones. Rolling unemployment allows businesses to adjust to demand, improving efficiency and fueling growth. A healthy economy compensates job losers by creating new jobs for them. America's economic athleticism has been the envy of other countries, a key to its success...
...9/11 has been ascribed in large degree to the fact that the nature of the attack was a surprise. We knew there was a terrorist threat; we didn't know it would become manifest in this particular way. What was different with Katrina was that it was an event that had been anticipated and planned for in the gulf region for decades. So whatever you can say about the response to Katrina, it was not a consequence of surprise. With Katrina, you had the same kind of estrangement between officials at the top, who just like on 9/11 were largely...