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...rate. “In 1972, starting salaries at Manhattan firms were up to $16,000 while the federal government offered its newly minted lawyers $13,300 and Legal Aid of New York paid $12,500,” David Brook writes in his book “The Trap.” “Since then, the salary gap has widened, accelerating most rapidly in the 1980s and 90s. Today, it is not uncommon for top law firms to pay recent grads $100,000 more than public interest employers pay theirs.” Finance salaries, including bonuses...
...importance of keeping the city clean.” She threatened to bring the fruits of her “hobby”—rat-catching—to a meeting should the councillors prove intransigent. “[I’ll] bring my rat trap, and there will be a live rat inside, to show you they do indeed exist,” she said at the time. But the agitators aren’t without their opponents and the most vocal among them has been serial commenter Roy Bercaw. “The only...
After doing a few Web searches and trolling men's health chat rooms, Prince, an actor in Los Angeles, decided that his problem had less to do with a mental trap he was in than a physical flap he was missing: his foreskin. That is, he felt that the routine circumcision he had undergone as a baby had left him, now at age 47, desensitized from the years of exposure. The solution: for the past five months, he's been growing his foreskin back using a device he bought online called the TLC Tugger. "The changes!" he says, going...
...went back into the house a third time. I heard popping and saw palm trees in the street bursting into flames. Embers were falling and setting bushes and trees on fire. I said to myself, I can't [stay here]. A tree might fall on the car and trap everybody. So I slammed the door and ran to the car. I got hit by a hailstorm of flaming embers. They burned my arms, my neck and my legs. By then there were fires everywhere on the street. I couldn't see five feet in front of me. My wife...
...lives and have varied personalities. I think Nowak should be admired for traveling across the country at night and not getting out of her car to put in gas or go to the restroom. It is not excusable, but it is understandable for an achiever to fall into a trap...