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Hoffa once tried to sum up in four short sentences his career after he left school at the end of the seventh grade: "I got a job in a department store--stock boy. Then I got a job at Kroger's. And that's my whole life. Pretty simple life." It was a lot more complicated than that. But in one sense Hoffa's career indeed followed a simple line: straight up the ladder of labor-union power ... Hoffa's rise to power and the uses he has made of it are detailed and documented in the McClellan committee record...
...This article consists of an illustration. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] True story: As part of its social-studies curriculum, my daughter's fourth-grade class was planning a field trip to the Lower East Side in Manhattan to get a sense of what life was like for immigrants in the early 20th century...
...bluebooks to read this week, and all I ask, really, is that you keep me awake. Is that so much?Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx...
...ostensibly, undertaken to prevent massively destructive weapons in Iraq from falling into the wrong hands. Yet between April 3 and May 24, 2003, after U.S. troops occupied, searched, and vacated the al-Qa’qaa weapons depot, looters carted off 335 tons of ultra-high-grade plastic explosive from its known location in International Atomic Energy Agency-sealed bunkers there. (Yes: 335 tons. This is enough explosive for several thousand Oklahoma City bombings.) It is impossible to imagine a strategic mistake this large being included in any war plan meant to secure extraordinarily powerful weapons. In light of what...
...course, any number of developments could puncture Wagoner's tires: oil hitting $100 a barrel or a recession in which auto sales tumble. Moody's recently warned of further downgrades of GM's bond ratings, already below investment grade, after GM said it may have to renegotiate terms for $5.6 billion in credit. Should GM's unsecured debt fall below a CCC rating, the GMAC sale would be in jeopardy. "We have to get the GMAC deal closed," Wagoner says when asked what could derail a turnaround...