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...Italy, where jobless figures have long been in double digits. "From an intelligent secretary on up, you just can't find people," gripes Alessandro Ponti, head of Zetesis, an Internet services company in northern Italy. (Those laid-off workers in Silicon Valley might consider sending their résumés to Milan.) With more Europeans working and making more money, internal consumer demand ought to help offset the weakness in exports...
...Oscar is a glittering prize that supplies succor and nourishment all the way to Monday morning. And then it's back to "What have you done lately?" Of course the tag is with you forever but no one in this short-attention-span town remembers your résumé. They remember that you gave great "headers." "Headers" are the snappy soundbites by which you cement your relationships (I use the word loosely) in a crowded party...
Berger said he believes that with globalization, instead of this "zero-sum" scenario, America should now be thinking in terms...
...idea of acceptance both of ideas and of individuals--acceptance of those with whom we agree and disagree? It is the protection of freedom of expression. But more than that, it is the celebration of the individual as an individual, the glorification of the whole as a sum of distinct (and sometimes opposing) parts. It is the right to engage in dialogue, disagreement and debate--not to inflict homogeneity or favor according to political correctness...
...good measure, the College Board's Advanced Placement calculus exam. This year she is enrolled in three more AP classes. By the time she graduates, she will have paid nearly $500 for tests sponsored by the College Board and designed by the Educational Testing Service--hardly an unusual sum for an ambitious high school senior. "I have no choice but to spend this money," says Lisa. "I want to get into college...