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...19th century. The displaced workers must now reintegrate themselves into an economy that increasingly rewards only highly skilled labor. The question then becomes: How do they make that leap? The answer is not being provided by either politicians or the economy itself, which leaves the unemployed to stare at the enormous gap between a job as a grocery clerk or some high-skill, high-wage position they cannot dream of getting. What to do with these workers, how to make them productive consumers, is the fundamental dilemma of the American economy. "Every time I lay off 3,000 guys," says...
...back alleys of Ballyragget, but they were Falstaffs to me. And there were Ancient Pistols among them. And there was an old man with a broken-hearted-looking face who used to come in and sit in a chair in the corner with a Guinness at his elbow and stare straight ahead for hours at a time and occasionally mumble a few words to himself, and every time he came in I would say to myself, 'King Lear.' " Readers of that passage will not wonder that Mitchell has attended meetings of the James Joyce Society for the past 30 years...
With his crazy stare, massive knuckles and tattooed biceps, Jimmy T. looks like an urban grenade with a faulty pin. The five-alarm face fits nicely with his career as an up-and-coming member of a Chicago gang called the Vice Lords. But when his face relaxes and the baby fat sinks back in place, a different visage emerges. Disarmed of weapons and bravado, Jimmy is a terrified 16-year- old who did something very, very stupid one hot summer night this past June...
...easier for the American people to stare at television and newspaper images than it is for them to notice the real people around them. And it takes less effort for reporters to ride along on the press bus quote from advance copies of speeches than it does for them to his the streets and talk to strangers...
Gore, for example, went so far as to liken America today to his son lying lifeless in his father's arms with "the empty stare of death . . . waiting for a second breath of life." Moving briskly from the pathetic to the political, Gore went on, "Our democracy is lying in the gutter, waiting for us to give it a second breath of life...