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...front, with October's numbers showing that the economy is continuing to shed jobs. "It's bewildering to see the same Administration that sold its trillion-dollar spending plan this spring as a guarantee against 8% unemployment claiming it created 1 million jobs, especially since it is a sad fact 3 million jobs have been lost since the stimulus was signed into law," said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday, Nov. 5. See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...else entered—that’s a nerd. Ordering the Kong so frequently that the owner laughs every time I call and asks, “Eating alone to stay up and study late againnnn?”—well, that’s just sad. And also, not high school...
...suggestions of her making safe landing on some deserted island - just communication blunders and furrowed brows (a Swank specialty), and then she and the plane are gone, vanished in the typical way of small planes running out of fuel over a vast ocean. It's not even particularly sad until Nair rolls the documentary footage of the real Earhart. There, grainy and distant, is the "ghost of aviation," as Joni Mitchell called her in the 1976 song "Amelia." Earhart still has the power to haunt us, even after, as Mitchell imagined it, her life became a travelogue. This Amelia...
Still, as much as issues like questionably advertised auctions and life-settlement deals may vex Madoff victims, going after such bottom feeders is low on their list of priorities. The auction ads "are a sad commentary," says Ronnie Sue Ambrosino, a Madoff victims' group leader in Arizona. "But we have much bigger fish...
...stood in front of the microphone, guitar in hand, pale and fragile-looking. She wore skinny jeans and a grey sweater, white-blonde hair piled high atop her head. She sang about breakdowns and breakups, about depression. Her voice was gentle, sometimes, and rough. She looked sad and nervous. Awkward. Between songs she talked—shyly—to the audience...