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...addition to the obvious problem that layoffs pose for those who lose their jobs, it also impacts those “lucky?? enough to have weathered the storm and retain their employment. With upcoming layoffs at Harvard Medical School totaling about 40 percent of the custodial staff, cuts will nearly double the amount of work for already overextended employees. Such overwhelming personnel cuts like those slated for the medical school campus are unacceptable and are disproportionally making custodians feel a harder pinch than the tightening of the belt that all parts of the university are facing...
...racial tension persist across the country. While these phenomena certainly don’t indicate any peculiar suppression or active organized racism, to make the claim that even the Democratic electorate actually prefers a black man to his Caucasian equivalent—Ferraro called Obama “lucky??—is to presume an epiphany of toleration among the people for whom ‘the Bradley Effect’ was conceived...
...titled angsty nineties hit, but they’ll need to be more than “Lucky,” their hopefully-titled fifth studio album, to shoot back to the top of the charts. The alt-rock trio lays down eleven solid tracks, but “Lucky?? isn’t particularly special coming from a band which has produced fantastic material in the past. One of the three or so songs which manages to stand out is the opening number, “See These Bones.” A ringing guitar part...
...charity of old coaches. Upshaw claims that players understand the nature of the game and should expect to provide for themselves after the big-time. “There is no job that you can work for five years—10 if you’re lucky??and then believe that you’re never going to have to work another day in your life,” he said during the hearings. True, but most jobs don’t turn the employee’s brain into brain soup after five years. According...
...appreciated Ronald K. Kamdem’s comment “Not So Lucky?? (Mar. 1). However, saying “The Higher Power of Lucky?? was banned “in many school libraries across the country” misleadingly suggests that efforts to ban the book have been common. In fact, librarians choosing not to stock the book (many of whom are making that decision under strong pressure from their communities) are very decidedly in the minority. Far more significant is the fact that the book did, as Kamdem notes, win the Newbery Medal...