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...Willie Wingfield is working as hard as he can. He advises six Omaha, Neb., companies on their IT operations, evaluating and replacing their business applications. It's challenging, fast paced--and fleeting. Laid off in 2002, Wingfield, 49, has so far been unable to land another permanent spot and instead takes jobs through a temporary-services firm, usually for one-to-three-month projects. "I don't have a strong sense of security," he says. "As long as I can continue securing clients and billing enough to pay for myself, I'm there. But if the economy turns...
Temp work is no longer just about the assembly line or order entry. More and more highly skilled professionals--Wingfield has an M.B.A. and 23 years of experience--are turning to temp agencies while they struggle with a tough labor market. These accomplished workers--lawyers, accountants, engineers, biochemists--make up the fastest-growing segment of the temporary work force and account for as much as a third of the business of large temp firms. That's helped lift temp agencies, which tend to do well in a recovering economy, as companies use them to dip a toe into the hiring...
...light. The film settles into its story during the first interview between Bridges and Spacey, notable only for Spacey’s light touch with physical comedy (there’s a running gag involving fruit). The other residents in the hospital, ranging from the self-absorbed Amanda Wingfield-type to a fat guy who thinks everyone stinks, are also introduced to the fascinated alien. It is at this point that the outsider begins solving everyone’s problems...
...Former bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, the sole survivor of the crash that killed the princess in August 1997, launched a lawsuit Wednesday against the Ritz Hotel and the Etoile-Limousine car service for "endangering the lives of others." As TIME reported in August, Rees-Jones and fellow bodyguard Kes Wingfield consider the hotel largely responsible for the tragic accident. Although Rees-Jones is still plagued by amnesia and doesn't remember what happened that fateful night, Wingfield told crash investigators that he requested six extra bodyguards and was ignored...
...part, Ritz owner Mohammed Al-Fayed seems to have decided Rees-Jones and Wingfield themselves are guilty -- for not ordering a backup car or making sure the princess was buckled up in the back. "They moved away from the rules. They let me down," he told TIME. Now he and Rees-Jones will likely face each other in French court -- trading barbs over who was responsible for Henri Paul, the Mercedes driver who was found to be legally drunk. Given that Paul was the Ritz security chief, it doesn't look good for Al-Fayed. Then again, the spectacle...