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...same time, Statistics Canada, a government agency, reports that unemployment fell three-tenths of a percentage point to 8.4% in September, the first monthly decline since the beginning of the labor market slump a year ago. According to the report, 31,000 net new jobs were created last month...
Jonze's biggest challenge lies in sustaining the movie's forward momentum during Max's time with the wild things. At a certain point, I felt I'd learned enough and was ready to go home to Keener's anchoring presence. It's not that Jonze is overindulgent; it's that he's so thoroughly devoted to exploring Max's pain and joys, sometimes to the detriment of narrative. But I'll let my own child make the call on whether it's too long. I'm taking him, although I'd doubted I would, having expected the hipster...
...into difficulty explaining the findings to the editors of the major medical journal that published it. "The editors kept coming back to me and saying, 'But what do the patients die of? You don't die from dementia.' And I kept saying, 'Yes, they do. That's the whole point of the paper,' " says Sachs...
...point [of the performances] is to have them out there, so when the weather is nice, people drop in,” she added...
...others think the ACLU is missing the point. The premise of the law is sound, says Laurence Tribe, a constitutional-law expert at Harvard. "If the moment you enter a church you don a cloak of immunity from the rule of law, then churches would become sanctuaries for crime," says Tribe. (Read "The Vatican Rethinks Laws on Abuse...