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...beginning, has just arrived in America and taken a young bride. Filled with hope and ambition he starts a job as a laborer in a packinghouse and puts a down payment on a house. Thereafter Jurgis endures a nearly endless stream of misfortune, exploitation, and pain that gives lie to the fantasy of the Happy Immigrant. From the horror of the fertilizer factory to the mansion of a robber baron, Jurgis experiences the extremes of capitalism run rampant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conscience Comix | 10/14/2004 | See Source »

...because the economy's working. It's all working." The equation hadn't always seemed so simple. When Howard called the election on Aug. 29, he went into the campaign with his mantle askew, hounded by an increasingly confident Opposition over claims by a former advisor that he had lied over the so-called children-overboard affair during the 2001 election campaign, and briefly caught up in an embarrassing public debate over whether he should submit to a lie-detector test over the issue. Labor believed the election should be fought on voter distrust of the political veteran, but Howard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Matter of Trust | 10/14/2004 | See Source »

...because President Bush is living in a fantasy world but because so many Americans are blindly following him. The Republican strategy to win this election is to incessantly spread fear. From NASCAR dads to security moms, the consensus seems to be that they don't care whether Bush is lying to them. They will wrap themselves in that dishonesty like a security blanket because they want to feel safe. If dads and moms want to truly protect their children, however, they should start acting like responsible adults and demand answers that have a basis in reality. Sandra Basile Barnegat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/14/2004 | See Source »

Soccer co-captain Liza K. Barber ’05, an English concentrator, says that many of her friends who are economics concentrators chose the field not only because that was where their interests lie, but because “you kind of have a job to look toward. Economics is one of those concentrations with a foreseeable career path...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn and Rebecca D. O’brien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Deconstructing the Gov Jock | 10/14/2004 | See Source »

...American life should have been lost on that lie, and that’s why George Bush should be defeated,” he said...

Author: By Jeffrey P. Amlin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Markey Addresses College Dems | 10/12/2004 | See Source »

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