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...Greg Combet "We need as a nation to develop a new democratic consensus." Experience: Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary The modern face of Australian unionism has been an effective spearhead of the fight against the government's IR laws. Combet won the admiration of Labor's grassroots for his role in the 1998 docks dispute and in winning compensation for asbestosis sufferers from multinational James Hardie. He is making his political debut at this election, contesting a safe seat in New South Wales' Hunter Valley...
...searched for some mention of psychology's giants who first theorized about the behavioral differences among siblings. You didn't mention, for example, Alfred Adler, a contemporary of Sigmund Freud's and Carl Jung's, who wrote extensively that birth order predicts personality. Nor did you mention the modern, highly influential ideas of Virginia Satir, who recognized that firstborn, middle, youngest and only children each have characteristic ways of forming relationships, taking responsibility and responding to authority. Charles Kaplan, Meriden, Connecticut...
...weekend. But how about naming the school after Elihu Yale, on whose tombstone it is written, “Much good, some ill, he did; so hope all’s even.” If only it were all even. In retrospect, these were poor decisions. But, though modern Yale suffers from mistakes made throughout its history, no one has ever learned from them, and thus they haven’t stopped. Consider Yale’s most recent big mistake—not ending early action. We hope their admissions office enjoys reading those extra thousand early applications...
...claims that he’s talking about the survival of the country, which is outright rubbish,” said history professor Sugata Bose, who is an expert on modern South Asia. “What he is doing is talking about his own survival. He is basically trying to save his own skin and save his job.” [SEE CORRECTION APPENDED...
...star-studded cast. While all celebrities in their own rights, the actors adopt a pseudo-satirical style and give exaggerated performances, making no effort whatsoever to transcend their type-casting. This two-dimensional approach, however, helps Kelly create not only a send-up of today’s modern political scene but also an absurdist parody of the entire surrealist genre.In “Southland Tales,” the Marxist underground movement is controlled by SNL-type aging hippie-feminists who wear loose-fitting clothes, carry Tazers, and do lots of drugs. The entire American voting system...