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...lives of all migrant workers, of any generation, had such happy results. Wherever you go, you see people inventing jobs for themselves, selling bats at a roadside stand, for instance, or directing traffic for tips. On Bangka, men mine tin from the coastal seabed, employing motor-powered pumps to vacuum the sea floor onto patchwork floating trays in which they search for their prize. More often, a living wage, or the promise of one, is thought to exist elsewhere, which is why there is a constant stream of migrant workers flowing across Indonesia. Earlier, on the north coast of Java...
...support campaign reform. House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt has been herding recalcitrant Democrats. Forget your old fear that a soft-money ban hurts Democrats as much as Republicans, he tells them. Democrats caught up with Republicans in raising soft money because Bill Clinton used the White House to vacuum in millions. But W., an even better fund raiser than Bill, now occupies that real estate, so "there's no way that Democrats can compete," Gephardt argues. It's a plea for self-interest, but one that politicians can understand...
...pass all his opportunities to play the innocent. An early admission of the sex, a loud rejection of guilt, and an energetic and public search for the missing girl, might have diverted the media into a less-interesting missing-persons adventure. But while dature may abhor a vacuum, dark media suspicions flower in one. Condit's public pose - the politician's equivalent of pulling your coat over your head - has left the hordes one of two impressions: of a cowardly (and foolish) innocent or a cagey monster...
...perfect sense to do what they're doing. There still may be evidence present if something happened in the apartment. But remember, she's been there - if you find something of hers, so what! It doesn't mean anything. If there's a hair, maybe they just didn't vacuum well. It really depends on whether her biological specimen is there and they're able to glean some information from a thorough analysis...
...Aside from the potential of a shiny new bauble in Comcast's hostile $44.5 billion bid for AT&T Broadband, Wall Street has very little reason not to continue cashing in its chips this week. Friday's hefty selloff occurred in a complete optimism vacuum - why buy when unemployment is up, when the dollar won't quit, and when there's naught but dire second-quarter profit warnings in the air? And the bargain-hunters, as a crowd, are a long way from feeling bold enough to rush...