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Those recently initiated into this group are anxious about their futures, says Susan Eaton, a senior vice president at Lee Hecht Harrison, a career consulting firm. She says she is counseling clients to remain positive and open-minded about their futures. "It's not all doom and gloom," she says, noting that she hasn't seen a curtailing of severance and benefits packages. "The reality is people are landing [safely]." Still, some of those landings have been bumpier than desirable. "You may need to reinvent yourself," Eaton says. "Some people are not going to go back to the same companies...
...programs in public health, safety, and education, according to a report prepared by the City Manager, Robert W. Healy. “Even though this is bad news, we have only just begun,” said Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87, the vice mayor of the City of Cambridge. He said that the income generated by the capital gains tax is expected to be reduced by at least $750 million in the fiscal year of 2009, citing the data presented at the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation. Massachusetts governor Deval L. Patrick...
...privatization, the $700 billion bailout. Also: Brownie, John Ashcroft covering up that bare-breasted statue at the Justice Department, Alberto Gonzales politicizing the Justice Department, Harriet Miers, the oil lobbyist who edited those global warming reports. Also: Jack Abramoff, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, Tom DeLay, Ted Stevens. Also: the Vice President shot a guy, and the President almost choked to death on a pretzel. (See the screwups of Campaign...
...Christian leaders to help avoid or quell religious discord, such as the violent protests in the Islamic world after the Danish papers published cartoons some deemed offensive to the Prophet Mohammed. Kalin also wants to fix a day each year when Muslim leaders teach their faithful about Christianity, and vice-versa. And finally, some Muslims would like a debate that goes beyond the Pope's call to a "dialogue based on reason." Kalin wants an acknowledgment of common "Judeo-Christian-Islamic" roots, even if the Vatican sees the story of salvation beginning with the Old Testament and ending with Christ...
...secretary at a bank. For more than two decades, she got up at 5 a.m., put on a suit and took the bus to work, arriving first at the office. Eventually - and much more slowly than her male counterparts - she advanced and was promoted to vice president. She earned more money than her husband, and her job became a "source of delicacy and bitterness" for the couple, Obama wrote in his memoir, Dreams from My Father...