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...with their parents, you failed to mention the outdated and inadequate teaching system. Since education doesn't focus enough on practical, market-oriented subjects, Italy's potential workforce is full of talented and educated youths who are inexperienced and struggle to find their place in the labor market. A first-class university degree doesn't help when you are faced with high rent, a housing crisis and double-digit unemployment. On the other hand, the stagnant political establishment has to keep in mind that radical and urgent reforms are badly needed in the labor market. Unless we can make changes...
...volleyball.Weitzen and McCrone, on the other hand, were heavily recruited for football and basketball, respectively—?Weitzen as a field goal kicker and McCrone as a power forward. Though both also played volleyball in high school, the prospects of playing major Division I sports while also receiving first-class educations were irresistible.“When I made the varsity team,” Weitzen reminisces, “I realized football was my shot into school—this was my ticket.”Similarly, McCrone spent his high school years dedicated to basketball, moving from...
...grandfather, S. Robert Stone, was in the Class of 1920, making him one of the first Jews to come here after they lifted the “Jewish quotas,” and one of the last to come here before President Lowell started using other techniques to crack down on our cheating kind. My great uncle Dick once told me about how he was in Expos with Henry A. Kissinger ’50. “He was a real first-class jerk; thought he knew everything,” says stoic old Uncle Dick. My paternal grandfather...
...Attorney General," Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont said at one point, "I'm getting the impression this administration picks and chooses what it's subject to." Senators asked directly if opening first-class mail or listening to calls beginning and ending inside the U.S. without notifying a court could be justified under the same argument. Gonzales wouldn't answer, saying he couldn't talk about operational details. Senators repeatedly pressed him on who was keeping the National Security Agency (NSA) program in check. How could Americans be assured that the government was only listening to the phone calls...
...lavish condominium projects in Aspen and other beautiful-people playgrounds sprouting around the world. Shelling out an average $221,600 for a deeded share, these Range Rover-in', Fendi-friendly folks who live to ski, golf and power shop are buying a couple of weeks of prime time in first-class venues stretching from the West Coast through the Rockies to the Gulf of Mexico. More often than not, though, the tab ranges from $300,000 to $750,000 and up in the higher elevations of Lake Tahoe, Calif., Jackson, Wyo., and, of course, Aspen, where the Hyatt Grand...