Word: plights
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...Levering, moreover, are too bland as actors to really give this story the emotional punch it is striving for. Norbert Leo Butz, against all odds, becomes the standout in the cast, turning from sickly victim into a song-and-dance ghost, who comments ironically on the couple's plight in a swinging, Cy Colemanesque number, "Oh! Ain't That Sweet," that almost stops the show. The irony is somewhat jarring, since nothing in the oh-so-serious first act prepares us for it. Still, it achieves the purpose of giving us an attitude toward the tragic denouement, apart from sheer...
...additional danger for American forces entering Afghanistan is that resentment of the U.S.'s perceived disengagement from the plight of the alliance will fester into outright opposition toward any American meddling in Afghan affairs. "We do not need the Americans to help us anymore," says Mohammed Farazi, an operational commander with alliance forces in the Dast-e-Qale region. "They should let us fix our country by ourselves." Aid workers from Kabul told TIME that a sense of disillusionment is growing there too with the way the U.S. has handled the war. "People are stunned to see nothing is happening...
Some 20 million part-time workers, or 16% of the work force, are employed part time, and most are ineligible for unemployment benefits, which are targeted at full-time workers. Making matters worse, the plight of unemployed part-time workers is virtually invisible--they aren't counted in the statistics, which showed an unemployment rate of 4.9% in September. A related problem is the lack of coverage for so-called short-timers who lose their full-time jobs but don't qualify for unemployment checks because they haven't been on the job long enough or earned enough money...
Representatives of the German and Belgian Greens, both in governing coalitions, called for a pause in the bombing to allow food aid to flow freely to the impoverished Afghan population. But while there is still deep public concern about the plight of civilians - particularly among neutral countries like Sweden - the European governments have so far stayed the course...
During a 1996 race off the coast of Hawaii, Plattner's yacht, the Morning Glory, had a breakdown. A boat owned by archrival Larry Ellison, the head of Oracle, cruised by and the crew allegedly mocked Plattner's plight by videotaping rather than helping. He famously mooned the camera...