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Guerrero says that since she has told her daughters about her condition, her family has gotten closer. Guerrero says she is lucky to have such understanding children and notes that her oldest, 15-year-old Ericka, is doing her part to help lighten the financial burden by working 16 hours a week at an Allston McDonald?...
...enforcement and social services, in hers, health care--that are feeling the first effects of the coming job boom. That's right. Even as thousands of Americans are still getting pink slips, powerful help is on the way. And it has more to do with demographics than economics. The oldest members of the huge baby-boom generation are now 56, and as they start retiring, job candidates with the right skills will be in hot demand. As Mitch Potter of human-resources consultant William M. Mercer says, "The dotcom bubble created a false talent crunch. The real one is coming...
...problem, some church spokesmen argued, as if scandals weren't exploding elsewhere: an ABC News report charged the Vatican itself with covering up abuse claims against a priest previously praised by the Pope. Then there was the scapegoating of gays. Equating homosexuality with child abuse is one of the oldest slanders there is--but this church didn't hesitate to invoke it to deflect attention from its own culpability. Besides, now we know that perhaps as many as half of America's priests are believed to be gay. A church that still preaches that homosexuals are "intrinsically disordered" relies...
Poetry lovers fear the closure of Grolier Poetry Book Shop, the United States’ oldest continuously operating poetry bookstore. Faculty members in the English department implore their students to purchase their Yates anthologies and Pinsky collections from the independent bookshop...
...shifts and lacking continuity, independents’ employees are the owners and managers themselves and are almost always around—a much more familial design. Kramer has been running Harvard Book Store for over 40 years, and he’s not even the store’s oldest employee. Long-term employees of Harvard Book Store share in the company’s profits, and the store negotiates with unions without the aid of lawyers—signs of true cooperation and long-lasting relationships. These employees can, and do, forge tight bonds with Cambridge residents and Harvard...