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...latest victim of the financial crisis: baby boomers' retirement. With plunging stock values and tanking home prices, an increasing number of boomers approaching retirement age are postponing travel plans and staying on the job longer. According to a study in October by AARP, 65% of people over the age of 45 say they will delay retirement if the economic situation doesn't improve significantly. Since that survey was published, stocks have sunk lower and the economy has formally entered into recession...
...battle of the New York Ivies, Cornell would appear to be the heavy favorite. Senior quarterback Nathan Ford leads the Ancient Eight’s top passing offense into Manhattan after a confidence-building rout over Dartmouth the Doormat, which also played the victim in Columbia’s lone win of the season...
...beginning of the 1960s, though, liberalism was becoming a victim of its own success. The post-World War II economic boom flooded America's colleges with the children of a rising middle class, and it was those children, who had never experienced life on an economic knife-edge, who began to question the status quo, the tidy, orderly society F.D.R. had built. For blacks in the South, they noted, order meant racial apartheid. For many women, it meant confinement to the home. For everyone, it meant stifling conformity, a society suffocated by rules about how people should dress, pray, imbibe...
...some ways, Ireland has been a victim of its own success. Rising incomes and government policy failures pumped up a housing bubble that is now deflating fast, hurting Ireland's outsized construction sector. Factor in soaring unemployment, weaker consumer spending and the gummed-up credit markets, and Ireland is facing "the most challenging fiscal and economic position in a generation," Finance Minister Brian Lenihan told parliament on Oct. 14. "We must all pull together if we are to return to more prosperous times...
Along with the DNA evidence connecting only Ballard to the murder, the former FBI agents believe the autopsy report on the victim and the physical condition of the crime scene are consistent with a "single-offender crime." Lawyers contend that the sailors confessed under high-pressure interrogation tactics that included lies and threats of the death penalty. "In rare cases," wrote the retired agents, powerful interrogation techniques "can produce false confessions." The investigative confirmations required to ensure confessions are reliable were not done in this case, wrote the agents...