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...great irony is that throughout his second campaign for the presidency, McCain rarely seemed to catch a break. Time and again, outside events hampered his electoral chances, first with an ill-timed debate over immigration in the primary and then with this fall's financial crisis, which ultimately sunk his campaign. "It is entirely doubtful that anyone will have to run in a worse political climate than the one John McCain had to run in this year," Steve Schmidt, McCain's political guru, said earlier...
...Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA), which outlawed employment discrimination against women who are Poehler-ized. But the news that pregnant women need to be treated as would any employee with a broken leg or other temporary disability - i.e., not get fired or demoted - seems to have not quite sunk in. Complaints to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) are on a decade-long rise, up 65% from 1992 to 2007. And the number of cases the EEOC has decided to take on has quadrupled in the same period...
...forward without major gains in employment, a reflection of the fact that the underlying economic problems of modern recessions have been more complex and therefore more difficult to solve. Levy thinks the same dynamics are in play now as the economy struggles to regain its footing after being sunk by complicated issues such as capital flows and deflation of assets and debt - all of which choke off cash flows among big employers, who then trim payrolls. "You can't just clean these things up by having the economy go through a year of cutting inventories and dropping interest rates," says...
...patches of spittle on the marble limbs. He found himself in front of a massive statue of Alcibiades, the Athenian hero. Alcibiades’s cloak billowed behind him, framing the proud thrust of his hips and the jaunty angle of his spear. With a whimper of admiration, Frederick sunk to his knees and prepared to offer worship...
...mainly because McCain's influence among House Republicans, the crucial voting bloc, was limited. Nonetheless, after an initial bailout plan was crafted, his campaign declared victory, saying McCain had helped give the House GOP a real bargaining position. This posture might have worked had the House Republicans not surprisingly sunk the bailout package in a vote that Monday, sending the stock market reeling and the nation further into a crisis of leadership. McCain's gamble had not just failed to produce results, it left him looking impulsive and erratic. Days later, to add insult to injury, McCain was forced...