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...film focusing on a single day in the lives of 21 people is bound to have poor character development. All of the characters are one-dimensional, except for the surprisingly excellent Ashton Kutcher. As the film’s central character, Kutcher undergoes the most changes over the course of the day and gradually wins over the audience with his combination of charm and down-to-earth attitude. In a film directed by the menopausal king of chick flicks, Garry Marshal (“Pretty Woman,” “Runaway Bride...
...derisive letters Time received from older Americans about its January story on teenage unemployment [Feb. 1]: As a teen who has been unsuccessful in finding a job, I am offended by generalizations that teens have minimal skills and a poor work ethic. It is this sort of mind-set--and not just the economy--that prevents teenagers from getting jobs...
...happens when the economy returns to more normal conditions? The Republicans' recent electoral successes do not overcome 20 years of GOP difficulty appealing to women, young people and the college-educated. It wins elections by accumulating a huge supermajority in one demographic: whites, especially white men, who are not poor but who have not finished college. That's a big slice of America, but it's a shrinking slice...
...abandoned buildings, bulldozed lots and forgotten history. Around 3,000 people live in Cairo (pronounced Kay-ro), a third of them below the poverty line. "I describe this town in three words," says Preston Ewing Jr., Cairo's unofficial historian and former president of the local NAACP chapter: "poor, black and ugly." (See the best pictures...
Inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, the rebels have fought for more than four decades demanding land and jobs for farmers and the poor. The guerrillas are active in 20 Indian states...