FLEX APPEAL (New York Post)
WHEN she was a junior professor of economics at Barnard College, Sylvia Ann Hewlett found herself in a problematic pregnancy just as her tenure review was about to begin, so she went to her dean for counsel. With no maternity leave policy in place......more...Vets returning to an unwelcoming job market (Crain's Chicago Business)
Manuel Mora left the Army in March 2006 following a seven-month tour in Iraq and returned to Chicago with high hopes that his four-year military career would help him land a job. A year-and-a-half later, his hopes have been dashed. Still jobless, he has been turned away by at least 30 different ... ...more... A lifetime of stubbornly challenging authority (The Record)
Hundreds were crowded into the jail cell, but she was the one the prison guard singled out. She was 5 feet tall in a dress and sneakers, two braids down her back. The guard asked a question. She answered. Her confident tone drew an angry threat....more... Six questions with Andrea Bocelli (The Record)
Following the recent death of Luciano Pavarotti, much attention has been paid to the search for a successor to the world's best-known classical tenor....more... LOCAL NEWS (Daily Record)
Donald P. Smith of Pequannock has written a book that tells of his family's experiences as missionaries and as prisoners of the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II....more... 11-12-07 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE (Eurweb)
KANYE WEST'S MOTHER PASSES: Donda West died suddenly Saturday night. *Rapper Kanye West's mother, Donda West has died. She was 58. Details are still emerging and at EUR's press time, a cause of death had not been released....more... Payback time: Graduates face the music of student loans (The News & Advance)
This year's college graduates borrowed billions of dollars to pay for higher education. Now, it's payback time: Many of them will write their first check to lenders this month. Students with federal student loans receive a six-month grace period after graduation so they can enter the workforce. Then the bills for their loans start coming in. Graduates in 2007 from schools in Central Virginia ......more... Web Search powered by (Red Bluff Daily News)
No data currently available. SAN FRANCISCO?Omar Vizquel got his wish to return to the San Francisco Giants. The 11-time Gold Glove shortstop agreed Friday to a $5.3 million, one-year contract, a deal that includes a club option that could make it worth $10.2 million over two seasons....more... Skills at ready when crisis struck (Boston Globe)
Rudy Giuliani?s certitude, his relentless, even ferocious pursuit of goals, and hardshell imperviousness to frequent criticism are marks of a man who at a young age saw himself as a leader....more... |