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...reading this piece, you must realize that writing has a very important place in my life. Unfortunately, gift appreciation doesn't rank as high. Yes, I'm one of those people who always reads the card before opening the present...
Twelve months later it is apparent that the "revolution" is over, if it even even began. The rhetoric of the campaigns has given way to the reality of the aftermath. The newcomers quickly joined the rank-and-file members of the Hill and soon learned the ways of "the Beltway." In their first six months in office, these "babes-in-the-woods" pulled in a record $8 million in campaign contributions. Perhaps they could teach lessons to the incumbents defeated...
BOSTON--As top officials hail the merger of two of Harvard's leading teaching hospitals, the hospitals' rank and file are quietly grumbling that amid the euphoria over cost-efficiency and claims of improved service, they are being overlooked...
...Then you perceive the body of our kingdom/How foul it is, what rank diseases grow,/And with what danger, near the heart of it." The kingdom is sick. Violence, like wildfire, dances across the landscape. People die, choked by ringing hands of greed and indifference. Pain, suffering and death loom. The younger generation threatens to run away, choosing irresponsibility over the conformist greediness of the establishment. The kingdom is indeed sick, and no one seems willing nor able to save it. Sound familiar...
...today; corporate downsizing exacerbates the trend. In bleakly familiar fashion, Philip Morris and NCR said last week they would shed a total of 21,500 jobs in the next few years. Such cutbacks have hollowed out the core of American manufacturing, from which labor has traditionally drawn its rank and file. The number of U.S. autoworkers, for example, has shrunk from nearly 1 million in 1985 to 750,000 today, while steel employment has fallen from...