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More jobs may be on the way. On Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden, speaking at a forum at Pace University in New York City, predicted that many more Americans would see the effects of the $787 billion Recovery Act in the next three months than had seen them in the past three. "People are at work in every state in the nation that would not be at work if not for the act," said Biden. "But the speed of job growth will really pick up in the next few months...
...less than $60,000. Pike, which is based in Belmont, New Hampshire, has landed 10 new contracts since the stimulus bill was signed. "At our company alone, the stimulus bill has amounted to a 250-person swing in the economy," says Zimmerman. (See highlights from a debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin...
...judges' tone on Monday seemed to favor Franken, as it was Coleman's lawyers who endured much of the tough questioning. Interrupting another Coleman attorney, Joe Friedberg, just one minute into his remarks, Justice Christopher Dietzen (a Pawlenty appointee) said Friedberg's argument that there were enough problems to make a difference in the outcome of the election had "no concrete evidence to back it up." He added, "In my experience, I've never seen an offer of proof like this...
...they only look dead" [May 18]: both parties need more faces like Joe Scarborough. I'm a left-of-liberal Democrat who could easily become a Scarborough Republican. At a time when Republicanism sounds like a social disorder, Scarborough is a welcome voice of thoughtfulness, reason and adaptability. Ideologues and vitriolic hatemongers like Rush Limbaugh raise the question, Have we outgrown the need for party labels? As both parties move to become more of what the other side hates, people like Scarborough and Arnold Schwarzenegger move toward pragmatic evolution. Bob Abrams, HIGHLAND PARK...
...concerned few.Most students, in fact, considered themselves apolitical at the time and were more concerned about gaining financially rewarding and prestigious jobs associated with a Harvard education.“I think it was a very unconscious time—the country was unconscious—just imagine Joe McCarthy!” said William H.C. Basetti ’59. “But at Harvard at least everybody who had the least speck of brains realized how stupid it was.”Harvard’s involvement with the Roosevelt administration’s war effort...