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...Last March a labor-hungry Internet portal based in New Delhi gave Dubey a job editing online stories about women's fashion. He was hardly an expert, but, hey, it was his first work in 18 months. Within a couple of weeks, two other Internet-related companies tried to poach him. Today he makes $475 a month, three times the salary of a doctor right out of medical school, and his parents are getting marriage offers from families with available daughters. Dubey is the content manager for a portal providing crop and weather information for Indian farmers. Jobs like...
Unfortunately, I also tend to poach the bills out of her piggy bank late at night to pay the baby sitter or the pizza guy. (One night I even dipped into her petty cash to slip a buck under her pillow from the tooth fairy...
...survive, and he prefers that to President Gore anyway. But he has no easy way out. It is not at all clear that 20 extra seats after November would make resolution of the mess any easier; indeed, if a big G.O.P. victory is read as a mandate to slowly poach the President, then impeachment becomes harder to quell. "They never have exit strategies," says a White House official. "They only have strategies for confrontation...
...work, as a whole, is meant to show no affectation of fine writing, not does it lay claim to literary excellence. The Advocate has this ground by right of possession; we do not attempt to rival it in deux d'esprit, or in cunningness of speculation, or otherwise poach upon its preserves. We shall be content with the humbler task of satisfying the curiosity of our readers about what is going on in Cambridge, and at other colleges, and of giving them an opportunity to express their ideas upon practical questions. It ought to be added perhaps, that, while...
Hart began publishing his pieces electronically--strictly for pleasure, not profit. Indeed, he warned readers that if he caught anyone trying to poach his stuff, he would "hunt them down like the suture-headed mutants they are." Two years later, his site was drawing a couple thousand visitors a day. Until, that is, the evil lawyers interceded...