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Nice Work if You Can Get It Peter Gumbel's article on increasing employment problems across Western Europe [Oct. 3] perfectly highlighted the plight of a bleak, stagnant, not so efficient European labor market. The reasons lie in outdated and wrongheaded policies implemented by local governments that can't cope with the fast and ever changing rules of the marketplace. In addition, there seems to be an increasing number of young people who are immature, not motivated enough or simply not ready to compete and find a decent job. Discouraged, they rely on poorly paid, insecure jobs or, even worse...
SWOOPES IS OUT BUT NOT DOWN When Houston Comets forward SHERYL SWOOPES became the most prominent team-sport athlete to declare her homosexuality, the strongest reaction was the lack of one. "I feel like I've been living a lie," the WNBA's three-time most valuable player and mom of son Jordan, 8, said. "I'm finally O.K. with the idea of who I love." Swoopes, who has been dating a former coach for seven years, didn't lose her Nike sneaker deal or her role as the sweetheart of the league, which has a strong lesbian fan base...
...Ivies, but what do we really know about them?They have destroyed cellar-dwellers Dartmouth and Columbia and pasted a Yale team that might be on the verge of 3-1 right now, but will likely finish no better than 4-3 in league play.For Penn, the true tests lie ahead. The Quakers have Brown on the road this weekend, followed by a visit from Princeton and a trip to Cambridge. Emerging victorious in two out of three would put the Quakers in pretty good shape for an Ivy title, while winning all three would clinch it.The first step...
...missing the album’s genuinely hilarious moments, like Berman’s declaration: “Haven’t you heard the news? / Adam and Eve were Jews!” In “How Can I Love You? (If You Won’t Lie Down),” Berman proves himself both a learned poet and a skilled parodist by reformulating Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” as a jangly, banjo-driven, pop trifle. “Tanglewood” isn’t solely...
...credits roll that it was nothing more than a straightforward detective/reporter movie. With that in mind, go ahead and see it for the mystery, see it for the sex, see it for the incredibly cheesy ’70s attire, but don’t expect the truth to lie very far beyond the surface...