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...have jobs to pay more for health care. So the startling announcement last week that the American economy surged 7.2% in the third quarter--the most torrid rate of quarterly expansion since 1984--has many wondering whether this is, at last, the start of a sustained recovery that might pull workers out of their funk. Until that happens, strapped workers and the unemployed are wondering why, if the growth rate is so high, they feel...
...living in New York City, Crowe is the biggest local meal ticket, and long lenses follow his every move. Gamely, he tried to affect the air of a man enduring a comic nuisance, like birds he just can't seem to shoo off his lawn. He didn't quite pull it off. "I really try not to think about these f______ c__ks," he said while settling in for a coffee at an outdoor cafe. "We could go, but they've already got me. I should--no, I won't. There's been too many photographs of me giving people...
...kind of hoped that we might be able to pull some more of the kinds of people who want to be cooperative and want to be participating into the arena,” she says. “I really hoped that we could bring a different flavor to the council. I wanted more...
...fourth game drew to a close, Harvard faced a 24-29 sudden-death situation. A kill by junior outside hitter Nilly Schweitzer gave the Crimson a side-out. Schweitzer added two more kills to pull Harvard within three...
...blitz about an "options" memo written by a Democratic aide which argued for delaying an "independent investigation" of the pre-war intelligence until Dems have pushed Roberts and his powers as chairman to the limit - which, conveniently, would likely be during next year's presidential election season. "We can pull the trigger on an independent investigation of the Administration's use of intelligence at any time," the memo read, "but we can only do so once." Roberts and other Republicans jumped on the memo, with some calling for the dismissal of its author and warning Democrats that deeper probes into...