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...searches taking just more than three months on average, those with a brief severance period don't have much cushion. But a long severance period can give jobless people a false sense of security. Too often they take what they believe is a well-deserved break from the rat race. Employers are extremely wary of applicants with that kind of gap in their resume. A job seeker is like lettuce to the employer. The fresher you are to the hunt--a week or 10 days off to get the resume tuned up--the better. When a potential employer asks, "What...
...Tony suspected that someone was likely to be a Judas, what would he do? He'd have him over to the house for some baked ziti, treat him like a prince, get him tickets to a ballgame. The rat might then feel guilty and recant - or not, as the case may be, but at least Tony would have given him a chance to reconsider before getting out the baseball...
...real theatre rat," he said. "That's where I found my most meaningful relationships and insight on the world...
...wanted to talk about this, but I couldn't do it in six panels of a cartoon. So I started drafting my thoughts as a novel. I'd written one--Harry, the Rat with Women--a few years before. It had some success, but I hated the writing of it. It wasn't a natural form for me. When I had 300 pages of my new novel down, I went to Yaddo, the writers' colony in upstate New York, to finish it. But after I'd been there 24 hours and read through it, I knew there wasn...
...more than 100 rounds of ammunition from his collection. At the insistence of Harland Braun, the criminal lawyer retained by Blake after the murder, the police have also carted away three steamer trunks, five boxes and six suitcases of Bakley's documents, photos and recordings. "She was a pack rat," said Braun. "She kept every document involved with her." The documents, he says, will help identify Bakley's enemies and perhaps pinpoint a suspect from the countless scams she worked, including trying to pass hundreds of thousands of dollars in bad checks, claiming affairs with celebs and perpetrating a lonely...