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...extra Christmas cash. Best Buy is bringing in 16,000 to 20,000 holiday hires this season, down from 26,000 in 2007. (The good news for hopeful or clueless males: Victoria's Secret and Toys "R" Us say they'll keep last year's levels to ensure top-notch service...
When we spoke last week, she was driving from Pennsylvania to New York to compete in the New York Song Writer’s Circle (she won Grand Prize.) It’s another notch in her belt, which also includes a recent semifinalist position in Cosmopolitan magazine’s Star Launch competition and a Starbucks Emerging Artist Award...
...have witnessed a comparative bloodbath: scores of chickens disappeared into a giant pot, whose contents will be served to all comers. Malik, inundated by relatives from across Kenya and the world, has been going through two goats a day; the morning of the election, he stepped things up a notch by serving two bulls. Scarcely had he dispatched the pair when he drove to the nearby market of Ngiya to buy two more for the next...
...whose contents will be served to all comers outside the village dispensary. Malik, inundated by more than 50 relatives from across Kenya and the world, has been getting through two goats a day, and now that the big day has arrived, he decided to step things up a notch by serving up two bulls. Scarcely had he dispatched the pair before he was driving to the nearby market of Ngiya to buy two more for tomorrow...
Almost two years ago, in the first months of Barack Obama's campaign for the presidency, whenever the Illinois senator would get crowds going he would intentionally dial it down a notch. I remember seeing him in Columbia on his first trip to South Carolina in February 2007, six days after announcing his candidacy. When the crowd started chanting, "Yes, we can," to his riff on Civil Rights, Obama abruptly changed the subject to labor's right to organize. It was clear he was making a conscious effort not to be perceived (or pigeonholed) as the same inspirational speaker they...