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When Annie Schrader, 46, was released from prison in 2002, her only employment had been running an escort service and dealing drugs. A long job search yielded no possibilities and a deepening depression. "It's a huge problem because you know you can flip some dope and make a lot of money," says Schrader, who now counsels other ex-cons through a ministry called StretcherBearers...
Barrett's administration has tried to address unemployment through a huge investment in real estate development and tax incentives to attract business. The mayor says those efforts have created more than 10,000 local jobs. Most of them, however, are either high-tech positions beyond the skills of many Milwaukee residents or low-wage service slots in retail shops and chain restaurants that pay less than needed to support a family...
Just doing it, period, is a huge risk. [Laughs.] I love it, but it's always terrifying. It's incredibly difficult, and you always feel you're just about to fail...
...never a good idea for MacGuffins to grow into huge moral issues, lending false (and queasy) importance to what is essentially an entertainment. Not that the movie doesn't have its great performances. This being Berlin in 1945, there's a whole lot of whoring and black-marketeering going on, at the center of which is Jake's driver, Corporal Tully, who is played, in a striking bit of off-casting, by Tobey Maguire as one of those utterly chilling rogues who think they're charming...
...mother, I shuddered to read Madonna's pathetically low benchmark for motherhood: "Even if I'm the worst mother in the world, I'm better than death!" The comment was insensitive and reeked of arrogance. While Madonna's giving huge sums of money to charity is laudable, one needs an entirely different set of skills to be a good mother to an adopted child. I wonder how much Madonna understands that. Madhuri Pai Singapore...