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...good news is, Mom was mostly right. Here you are! The bad news is, we're a little short on jobs. [Pause for nervous chuckle.] How short? We're down about 6 million since the bubble popped. When half a million new jobless claims are filed in a single month, we call it an "improvement." And forget about older folks making room for you by retiring, because they can't afford to anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...first-place finish would be. The girls have fenced each other since the age of ten, and Vloka has never quite been able to show dominance over Ward. Because of this, Vloka found it was difficult to mentally prepare for the match. “I was really nervous and it really showed in my bout,” she said. Luckily, the rookie will have three more years to fight for the top spot in the country. “Caroline had a great year,” Harvard coach Peter Brand said...

Author: By Melissa Schellberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FEMALE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR RUNNER-UP: Sabre Impresses On National Stage | 5/30/2009 | See Source »

...that’s when the team has to be more loose and come together collectively…to find a way out of the hole,” Biega said. “A lot of times, teams tend to become more individualistic and become more frustrated and nervous on the ice. The way you come out of a difficult stretch is getting more as a team and playing more at ease.” While Harvard was able to reach a high level of play throughout the run-up to the ECAC tournament, the Crimson ultimately fell...

Author: By Lucy D. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Crimson Cannot Convert on Late-Season Efforts | 5/30/2009 | See Source »

...Amid the nervous laughter of his aides and reporters, Berlusconi, a Cheshire-cat grin widening across his face, brought up the question himself about le minorenni following the weekly meeting of the Council of Ministers in Rome. No, he insisted, there was nothing piccante (spicy) or "more than piccante" in his encounters with anyone underage, and he'd sworn so on the heads of his own children. Berlusconi insisted that he would have "resigned immediately" if he had been guilty of any of the aforementioned spiciness with someone under the age of consent. That, he said, was all he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlusconi and the Girl: No Spice, Thank You | 5/29/2009 | See Source »

...your previous two attempts, you turned around at 28,000 ft. Did you get nervous at that height this time? This particular year I've come around to my [second] wife Louise's way of thinking. It's being patient and monitoring your body and going slowly, which is not my natural way. When I got to that height, I wasn't exhausted, because I had been not competing. I wasn't thinking, "I must get up there. I must make a certain turnaround time. I must get there before that other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sir Ranulph Fiennes | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

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