Word: sumness
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This movie, though, is more than the sum of the films it echoes, including Allen's own. It's common for reviewers of his recent work to cite an early triumph like Bananas or Annie Hall and find the new ones lacking. Whatever Works is different: it has that young-Woody fizz with a mature comic romanticism; it's been aged in wit. If Allen has a decade or two of films left in him and if he makes a really excellent one years from now, people will say, "It's terrific, but it's no Whatever Works...
...avid outdoorsman. Nobody's ever accused our governor of being conventional"), except then the car of is found parked at the airport because it turns out the location of was actually Argentina, where an e-mail-fueled affair was being sadly broken off by in Buenos Aires, so, to sum up, another week, another would-be 2012 Republican presidential candidacy in self-induced shambles, though of course - OOPS! - Fox News initially put a (D) after the name of • Obama is blamed by Rush Limbaugh for the indiscretions of because ... because ... well, isn't EVERYTHING Obama's fault...
...Rohde story. In May 2007, the freelance Afghan journalist and translator was accused of being a spy, abducted and beheaded by the Taliban in southern Helmand province. The Italian correspondent he was working with, Daniele Mastrogiacomo, was later released in exchange for five militants and an undisclosed sum of cash paid by the Italian government. Another Afghan reporter working in Helmand, Abdul Samad Rohani, was killed last June while investigating a story for the British Broadcasting Corp. on illegal poppy cultivation. The Taliban, usually quick to claim credit even in instances where they may not actually be involved, denied...
...what exactly will these 14-to-24-year-olds be doing over the next six to 10 weeks? "Everything," says Andrew Sum of Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies. "You'll have kids in offices, in day-care centers; some kids will be cleaning streets and parks, mowing lawns and cleaning highways." Some states will couple job time with classroom time, while others, like Indiana, plan to use their stimulus funds for green projects, such as trail maintenance and park restoration...
...while youth unemployment is high, more telling to Sum are youth employment numbers, which show that less than 1 out of every 3 teens currently has a job, the lowest number since 1948. This statistic helps explain why Sum thinks the program isn't going far enough. Sure, $1.2 billion and hundreds of thousands of jobs sound huge, but it will bring teen unemployment down only a few percentage points - and only for a few months at that. If the point of a summer-jobs program is partly to train the uninitiated in the ways of the working world...