Word: interesting
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Some firms, such as Los Angeles-based Latham & Watkins and San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, have offered $75,000 annual compensation packages to incoming associates who defer employment until October 2010 and find alternate work in public-interest law. Other firms, like Morgan Lewis, have told deferred associates they can earn up to $60,000 per year if they work in public service, plus an additional $10,000 if they continue to study for the bar. Overall, firms estimate that these deferral arrangements could save them $25,000 to $85,000 per employee. (Read "Job Forecast for College Seniors...
...taxpayers, we fund the health care of our elected officials. Maybe it is time to strip the coverage of those officials who kowtow to lobbies and show no interest in mending this situation. David Walker, DARTMOUTH, MASS...
Though the digitization project has come under fire for its cost and possible privacy breeches, colleagues and interest groups applauded Blumenthal’s selection...
...returned to the same format to say that that the ship was slowly turning and the problems would be solved. Teachers and police officers were keeping their jobs, he said in his introduction, reading from a large TV screen. Stimulus tax cuts were finding their way into paychecks. Mortgage interest rates were at historic lows. A credit-crunch solution was in the pipeline. "So let's look towards the future with a renewed sense of common purpose, a renewed determination, and most importantly, a renewed confidence that a better day will come," Obama said...
...space: a grand, high-ceilinged dining room in downtown's Hotel California, with a black-and-white tile floor, lush faux-leather booths, refurbished chandeliers and, at its center, an inviting horseshoe bar. This is the second home for the restaurant founded by chef Eric Tucker - a wunderkind whose interest in healthy eating was spurred by a youthful passion for long-distance running and the realization that he was hypoglycemic. (See pictures of San Francisco...