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...opportunities available to students would dramatically decrease. Unpaid jobs would not suddenly change into paid ones; especially in this economy, the jobs would just go away. There is a reason why small companies with little capital are more likely to offer unpaid internships than the capital-laden behemoths of Wall Street...
...nurse enters, greeting the bawling four-year-old with great enthusiasm. But Mr. Miles is unamused. He won’t stand still on the scale or against the wall to be weighed and measured. After a few minutes of screaming, April gets on the scale with him so the nurse can do her work by subtraction...
Suddenly, a merciful break in the tears. The rolls of cartoon stickers on the wall have caught the young man’s attention. April gets him an Elmo sticker, which seems to do the trick until she tries to place it on Miles’ shirt, eliciting another bout of sobs...
...March, after most of his colleagues had split for the Easter holiday, Kaufman lingered on the Senate floor, waiting for his chance to address rows of empty chairs, a few pimple-faced pages and the C-SPAN cameras in his latest well-sourced broadside against the conventional wisdom on Wall Street and in the White House. "Unless Congress breaks up the megabanks that are 'too big to fail,' " he declared to an empty chamber, "the American taxpayer will remain the ultimate guarantor in an almost-certain-to-repeat-itself cycle of boom, bust and bailout." (See the top 10 unfortunate...
...year story line. To hear President Obama or his aides tell it, the coming Senate debate on financial regulatory reform will offer a clear choice to voters this fall between most Democrats who are defending the interests of Main Street and most Republicans who are in the pocket of Wall Street. Kaufman, by contrast, argues that neither party has yet shown much seriousness about undoing decades of deregulation, and nonregulation, that created the conditions for the financial collapse in the first place...