Word: riche
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There are certainly other factors at play here besides just a tough job market - more stay-at-home dads, more rich loafers, more prison inmates. But it also may be a sign that these are in fact the worst times for American workers since the 1930s. Which helps explain why there was so little excitement about that drop in the unemployment rate...
...deeper meaning to his popularity: During hard economic times, they say, why not celebrate a poor boy who robs from the island vacation homes of Seattle's dotcom gazillionaires? But Harris-Moore apparently steals just as often from Camano's ordinary folk as he does from the rich. (See the top 10 Facebook stories...
...unbelievable and surreal that they are not giving custody of the boy to the biological father," read one typical comment. "This is only happening because the stepfather - the one with the least right to the child in question - is a rich and well-known lawyer. This story disgusts me because it is representative of thousands of other equally unjust [tales], where power speaks louder than ethics and justice...
Lawyers here cautioned that judges rule according to law, not public opinion, and stressed the correct legal procedures have been followed to the letter, albeit slowly. But that tortuous process has irritated many Brazilians and not just because they feel there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. Many see the Goldman ordeal as a glaring showcase of how molasses-like Brazilian justice operates - of how justice often denied because it's so inexcusably delayed. Moreover, in a nation where family is all important, people have been critical of the spectacle of people fighting so blatantly...
...Queen shaping her own destiny, the movie tilts the balance of romantic power somewhat, giving us a Victoria gradually won over by Albert's attentions. He grumbles to his brother about the political nature of the courtship ("What do you say about a man who waits for a rich woman?"), but he's soon got the mushy look of a man more than ready to fulfill his duty. The suggestion is that he'll offer her an alliance of equals. Discussing the subject of husbands and political games over a chess match, he tells her, "I should recommend you find...