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...rises and falls with the availability of jobs. Unfortunately, Europeans who start their own businesses are crushed by corporate and other taxes. If they can hire support staff, these small one- or two-person businesses in many cases have to fund benefits that the employers themselves do not have: sick leave, paid four-week vacations, holidays, maternity leave, a 35-hour workweek and more. In a turnabout of the exploited and the exploiter, small-business employers feel used, and many dream of the day when they too can be employees. That is no way to get an economy moving. Somehow...
...people claim that Halloween is their favorite holiday. They think it’s about dressing up like sick sluts, getting blackout, and eating so much candy that their stool reflects all the hues of the Skittles rainbow. But that’s what every other day of the year is about. The true Halloween is about postponing the pleasure of eating your candy to count it for the purposes of a math project. It’s about a young bro named Cornelius who once broke his middle school’s record for UNICEF collections by solemnly refusing...
...this standard light-action fare. Judging by Campbell’s success with the Bond flick “Goldeneye,” he’s capable of pulling a crowd to see their favorite character, no matter how hackneyed the adventure. However, viewers with taste who are sick of this trite gruel might sympathize with a seven-year-old who had to watch Alejandro and Elena kiss during the press screening: “Ewww...
...place as one of two international photographs and one of just a few color photographs in the entire gallery. The most emotionally unsettling section is the “Social Museum Collection,” highlighting societal ills and poor conditions of industrial and social life. Orphanages full of sick children, hospitals and women portrayed as victims of domesticity crowd the walls, the display of the prints diminishing the gravity of their content. However, the attention paid to old social settlements of East Coast cities like Boston and the amateur but vivid documenting of those living conditions rescues this section...
...Kirby also announced yesterday that Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences Charles E. Rosenberg will replace Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, who is on sick leave, on the Council this semester...