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...textile mills of the South are gone, outsourced to Asia, and replaced on the landscape by Wal-Mart Supercenters—stores that sell second-rate merchandise and treat their employees like cattle, yet remain in business anyway because so many Americans can’t afford to shop anywhere else. In too many places today, there are no good jobs and no signs of change; in too many places the American Dream is starting to look more like a mirage. Understandably, this situation makes a man like Senator Edwards upset...
...bushes and lived to tell of it. I enjoyed taking taxis at night. Today taking a public taxi during the day as a western journalist is tantamount to a death wish. Back then there was an overabundance of satellite dishes - these big metal pans - for sale at nearly every shop. Today commerce has slowed to a crawl. The traffic now is a bit more orderly, but the number of horse-drawn carts has increased. Fancy cars are all but absent. And everyone is on edge - get too close and you might be a victim of the car bomb in front...
...Penn, and given him veto power, aides say, over every word that goes into her television ads and every line in her mailers. "He had her and the President's trust very deeply," says one adviser who is close to the campaign. Adds another: "He's a one-man shop...
...fall behind. Most students accept that the wheels of bureaucracy turn slowly, but delays are not acceptable in situations where graduation hangs in the balance. Furthermore, disabled students need not have their entire course plan picked out ahead of time. They should be able to change their concentration and shop classes. Perhaps, then, the two full-time staff members in the AEO and the three full-time workers in the ATL are not enough. Both offices swell their ranks with part-time help when the need arises, but given the number of students with disabilities, additional permanent staff seems like...
...very much a work in progress. After a year of campaigning, Huckabee still lacks some of the core pieces of a national front-runner campaign. Many of his policy proposals, both foreign and domestic, have not yet been fleshed out. His research department is thinly staffed, and his press shop is constantly overwhelmed. His fundraising operation remains a bit of an unproven mystery. Chip Saltsman, the campaign manager, said the conversation about new hires would begin on the overnight plane ride. "This is a campaign that has been taking fire nationally for a while now," he said. "We knew...