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...Black Candidate. I remember watching Obama in a school auditorium in Berlin, N.H., this winter, long before Rev. Wright became a household name. One aging hippie-after saying he hoped his question "doesn't seem odd in the whitest place on earth"-asked Obama if he would launch another "national conversation about race," as President Clinton did. And Obama said: No. "I'm less interested in a conversation about race in the abstract," he said. "All the self-flagellation, it's not useful. African-Americans get all riled up, and whites get defensive...
...knew nothing of her peers' paychecks. She was hired as a supervisor at its Birmingham, Ala., tire plant, doing all the work her male colleagues did. She says she hauled tires off machinery for inspection, rotated through every division and pulled many hours of overtime. She helped launch a new plant that made truck tires. Throughout, she says she earned bonuses and plaudits for solid work...
...Ceccaldi get sufficiently cheesed off to launch her assault on Houellebecq's contemptuous and impudently unflappable mystique? In large part because Houellebecq's books generally cast mother figures as dysfunctional, negligent, or psychologically twisted, and he has described his own in just such terms. In his 1998 success The Elementary Particles (published under the title of Atomized in the U.K.), for example, Houellebecq portrays his mother as so self-centered and infatuated with her own rootless, irresponsible hippie credo that she abandoned him in order to be able to travel and explore new experiences at will. Similarly...
Hadfield worked with University of Toronto professors Peter A. Singer and Abdallah S. Daar of the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health to launch the project...
...number of police,” Healy said. The city will hire four new police officers, who will be trained to work with weapons-detecting dogs, in accordance with the Council’s emphasis on public safety. Healy also praised the city’s decision to launch a transitional jobs program, which will help train and employ “disengaged” adults. The budget has increased largely because of costs related to city employees, including an annual salary increase and greater insurance and pension costs, according to an introduction Healy submitted with the proposed budget...