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Countering a charge that upper-class tax increases would hurt the economy, Joe Biden launched like a mad bus driver into a breathless verbal tour of his hometown, beginning with Union Street and a mom-and-pop restaurant, accelerating through all the stops—the current administration, taxes, Iraq, education, health care—taking a slight detour to note his (working-class, blue-collar) predilection for Home Depot, and wheezing back into the station with a promise of change from Obama. To viewers at home, Biden’s brief but intimate portrait seemed to say much more...
...apparent suicide, she has become a symbol of the difficulties women face in this deeply conservative yet technologically savvy society. Incessant online gossip appears to have been largely to blame for her death. But it's also clear that public life as a single, working, divorced mom - still a pariah status in South Korea - was one role she had a lot of trouble with...
...duller medium with which to address it than a drama that focuses on windshield wipers. The tale of the little guy who tries to bring the big company to justice is not an unfamiliar one. In “Erin Brockovich,” Julia Roberts plays a single mom who takes a power company to task for contaminating water supplies. In “The Insider,” Russell Crowe resolves to use his inside knowledge to bring down Big Tobacco. But both these films deal with moral issues of a more urgent nature and have heroes...
Biehl wrote that her concerned eighth-grader asked, "We don't have any stocks, do we, Mom?" She said she soft-pedaled any concerns about his college fund to stop the panic. Biehl, whose parents filed for bankruptcy when she herself was in college, wrote: "I briefly explained that it's all cyclical." Still, on the Monday of the vote and subsequent market crash, Biehl took a look at her 401(k) and discovered she had lost $6,300. "But then I thought, I have still doubled my money since I first started investing and - as I wrote...
...Twenty miles (32 km) outside city limits at the Boynton Beach Mall, 17-year-old Jay Johnson lets his black shirt drape over dropped shorts. "My dad and my mom don't like it," he says. "You gotta listen to your parents. And I know it's hard to find a job with your pants down low, so you fix them." Some who are against the fashion argue there is no need for a fashion police, despite sagging's association with gangsta...