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...sure, there are people who deny nearly all the above. "There is no major age discrimination in recruiting," says Ruth Graham, who owns a Washington employment agency. There is much less today than there was 20 years ago, anyway, says Shirley Brussell, 77. She is executive director of Operation ABLE, a Chicago-based employment and training agency that specializes in helping job seekers age 50 and above and proves by its mere existence that older workers get more assistance now than they once...
...Except on really important occasions," writes Graham Greene of one of his spies, "he always preferred the truth. The truth can be double-checked." It has been Clinton's good fortune that politics is not very good at double-checking. The law, however...
There is something to be said for Clinton's playing the race and religion card, in a modified Swaggart mode. Risky, but consider: Clinton appears on TV flanked by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Billy Graham, the reverends arranged like pastoral bookends in full supportive body English. Clinton, voice husky, sincere, speaks to the camera about the weekend of soul searching he has just spent with Jesse and Billy; speaks about his brother's drug addiction and about (here goes) his own long troublesome addiction, which is sex; subtly blames his childhood, the alcoholic home; implies the sins...
Perhaps you saw Ivan Seidenberg back in the 1960s when he got his start working for New York Telephone. Those were the good old days of telecommunications, when "phone company" and "AT&T" were synonyms. Interstate calls cost a small fortune. Copper wires, pioneered by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, were still state of the art. And Seidenberg was the guy you might have spotted crawling into manholes in New York City and cheerfully splicing phone lines together deep underground--peeling back the rubber coating on the finger-thick wires, laying the cable on the splicer and then gently pressing...
...sworn enemies, the trial lawyers. Both groups want to give patients the ability to sue their health plans for improper treatment. And the neat ideological divide between pro-business Republicans and populist Democrats is breaking down as well: some of the most conservative Republicans, including South Carolina's Lindsey Graham and Steve Largent of Oklahoma, are on record favoring some of the most liberal legislation. These Republicans don't like corporate bureaucracies any more than they like government ones...