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...lowest unemployment rates in the developed world. The Department of Labor estimates that a mere five percent of the American population was without employment in December 2007. Contrary to what most Republicans would have you believe, Mexican workers and other migrants don’t really compete for jobs with the five percent of America that is unemployed. They generally take unskilled and underpaid positions that other local workers don’t want. Romney knows this, but he denies it in the interest of electoral victory...
...Mitt Romney has played a part in this campaign cannot be underestimated," says an adviser to one of those rival campaigns. While sharp words have been exchanged between practically every Republican candidate at one point or another on the campaign trail, the aversion to Romney seems to go beyond mere policy disagreements. It's also a suspicion of what they see is his hypocrisy and essential phoniness - what one former staffer for Fred Thompson called Romney's "wholesale reinvention...
...Another three by the Tigers! This time it's Lincoln Gunn (sounds like a shooter's name). Then, Harvard's Fitzgerald travels on the other end and is replaced by Evan Harris, who played a mere 3 minutes in the first half and didn't attempt a shot...
...First among those expected callers is BNP, France's largest bank by capitalization, which on Thursday confirmed it was considering, "a run at Société Générale" - though just "like all of Europe". The mere rumor of a possible buyout sent SocGen share prices up nearly 11% during trading Tuesday. The feasibility of a BNP offer - or hostile raid - further increased on Wednesday, when it announced 2007 profits of over $11 billion. But BNP is hardly the only player contemplating exploiting Société Générale's troubles to acquire...
...overuse of signage was due to a misguided culture of risk avoidance among town planners. "Each time someone complains," he told TIME, "something gets added to the system. And no one asks if it's effective." But for the shared-space faithful, bigger prizes are at stake than mere road safety. For Moylan, the promise is "civilization and dancing in the streets." Likewise, Monderman rhapsodized that, "Eye contact and the consultation between civilians in public space is the highest quality you can get in a free country." His enduring vision echoes that of a poetic pedestrian from an earlier...