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Judy E. Murray, the recruiting director of the Office of Career Services (OCS), said that in her 12 years working at OCS, she has never heard of such a mass solicitation. Until yesterday, OCS did not have a formal written policy on mass e-mails...
While ignoring the new frog problem at this stage is excusable, ignoring global warming is not. We have heard the idea for many years; we know which pollutants create the most damage; and we have a fairly good idea of what steps we could take to alleviate the problem. And so the Union of Concerned Scientists has asked Clinton to bring up the issue at the international conference in Kyoto this December...
...remains, unspeakable: beanballs and spikings from opposing players, isolation on the road because he was not allowed to stay with his teammates at segregated hotels, and relentless invective from spectators. His wife Rachel, who went to all the games she could, sat in the stands and helplessly heard her husband called "nigger son of a bitch" and even worse...
Where's the girl that once I was? I hear that sentiment frequently from friends approaching midlife. But I never heard it from my mother or the women in the neighborhood, and that wasn't just because they didn't go around paraphrasing Broadway musicals. Unlike Baby Boomer women, dear old Mom just soldiered on without theorizing too much about it. She didn't look for meaning in a diaper, or make distinctions between quality vs. quantity time. She wished she were not so plump, but it would have never entered her mind to take two hours...
That, in a nutshell, is the new era you have heard so much about, and it's real, at least for now. Such perfect economic conditions have persisted through most of the '90s and led to a uniquely placid period in the market. As a society in love with stocks, we've never quite been here, so no one can be sure what to expect. When pushed, market veterans liken today's fervor to 1929 or 1968, both bull-market peaks. Because of key differences between now and those periods, however, few predict imminent disaster. But it's worth noting...