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...accept that the waitress who just brought us lunch needs the church's food pantry to feed her daughter for the rest of the month? She's working and that should be enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Do We Turn Away? | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...Here's how. We can make sure that waitress earns enough by raising the minimum wage so that it's a livable wage. We can give her a tax break by expanding the Earned Income Tax and Child Tax Credits. We can ensure that parents all across this country don?t have to choose between the job they need and the heartache of leaving their child in substandard care by guaranteeing access to quality child care. And when hardship hits when a job is lost, we should expand eligibility for Unemployment Insurance so families don't slip deeper into trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Do We Turn Away? | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...Supper Club, a labyrinth of dining rooms, ballrooms, fountains and gardens located on a bluff 5 miles (8 km) south of Cincinnati. Darla McCollister was there. She got married that evening at the gazebo in the garden and then, as her party began to move inside for dinner, a waitress informed her that there was a small fire in the building. It had begun as an electrical fire in the Zebra Room, adjacent to the bride's dressing room. Before the night was out, the flames would tear through the Beverly Hills, led by a roiling advance of smoke. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Survival Guide to Catastrophe | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

...Kelly's stellar career is at stake. Robert Kelly, 41, was born on Chicago's South Side, raised by a mother who worked as a singer and, occasionally, a waitress. He hardly knew his father. Kelly got noticed performing hits by Stevie Wonder and the Isley Bothers on Chicago street corners. In the early 1990s, he burst onto the national music scene as both a solo singer and the producer of hits like Michael Jackson's 1995 silky "You Are Not Alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will R. Kelly Finally Go on Trial? | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

...watched a daytime drama. I doubt they would even get the cultural reference should they listen to Blige’s “No More Drama.” For a glimpse of what’s going on in their heads, listen to “The Waitress,” which describes the daily routine of a waitress from the perspective of a homeless customer who’s getting maltreated and wants to die and “come back as a cockroach in [her] tin cup.” If nothing else...

Author: By Roy Cohen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Atmosphere | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

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