A rising sense of panic has emerged among the middle class, which is bearing the economic burden as the West ratchets up pressure on the Iranian regime.
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In Iran, Rising International Tensions Take a Toll
With for-profit colleges under siege in Washington over accusations that they defraud students, Mitt Romney’s endorsement of them puts him in the middle of a political debate.
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Mitt Romney Offers Praise for a Donor’s Business
Federal employees don’t need Paul Revere riding through the Federal Triangle on a Segway yelling, “Budget cuts are coming, budget cuts are coming,” to know that times are tough for the workforce. Already in the middle of a two-year freeze of basic pay, the best workers can hope for is Congress accepting President Obama’s proposal for a measly 0.5 percent raise next year. Read full article > >
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Across-the-board cuts in federal workplace may not be wise or safe
The nation's exploding economic inequality threatens the middle class. It's time for a new social contract, says Paul Osterman.
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Opinion: How to save the middle class
For decades, government jobs gave black workers a refuge from racial discrimination in the workplace and a springboard to the middle class. No longer.
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As Public Sector Sheds Jobs, Black Americans Are Hit Hard
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Joe Paterno ’s head coaching career at Penn State began on Sept. 17, 1966 with a win over Maryland, and it ended Wednesday night, at the end of an extraordinary day, in the middle of an emotionally wrenching week, with a telephone call from the heads of the school’s Board of Trustees . Read full article > >
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Joe Paterno fired as football coach at Penn State
HOPKINTON, N.H. — On the eve of Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate, Mitt Romney shopped for votes in a quaint country store and cast himself as a champion of the middle class. Jon Huntsman Jr. released his foreign policy agenda. Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum journeyed from town to town searching for some spark to ignite their struggling campaigns. Read full article > >
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Rick Perry has most at stake in latest Republican presidential debate
“Music for a while / Shall all your cares beguile,” as English poet John Dryden put it, but who shall beguile the cares of the musicians? Shortly after the Scottish tenor Paul Agnew had sung Henry Purcell’s setting of that text, in a beguiling concert at La Maison Francaise on Monday night, the harpsichordist accompanying him, Beatrice Martin, felt faint and asked her colleagues to pause the concert in the middle of a dance from Purcell’s G Minor Suite. Read full article > >
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Music review: Les Arts Florissants
On Thursday, the Metro board is scheduled to take up a staff request to schedule hearings across the D.C. region on proposed changes to dozens of bus routes . If the board approves, the hearings could be scheduled for the week of Oct. 10. Then the board would have to decide whether to accept or modify the proposals. Service changes would take effect by the middle of 2012. Read full article > >
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Metro proposes changes to Metrobus system
Maybe it’s time for Democrats to go easy on Mitt Romney. The usual calculations would lead to the opposite conclusion. In political campaigns, you always hope the opposing party nominates the most extreme of its possible candidates, thereby surrendering the middle of the electorate. And in this sense, Rick Perry’s candidacy is a Texas-sized gift to President Obama. Read full article > >
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FLUSHING MEADOWS, N.Y. — Battling back into contention for what would have been her fourth U.S. Open championship after a lackluster first set, Serena Williams was involved in yet another officiating controversy Sunday at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Whether the sport’s biggest star was appropriately disciplined or unjustly penalized for shouting “Come on!” in the middle of a point will be debated from some time to come. Read full article > >
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U.S. Open: Samantha Stosur wins title over Serena Williams, who finds herself in officiating controversy
Don’t tell Jonathan Franzen. The population of the world, rather than stabilizing around nine billion in the middle of the century as previously expected, is now projected by the United Nations to hit 10.1 billion by century’s end. The world population…
In the middle of a golf and country club community in Gainesville, where rows upon rows of neat new homes sit on what was farmland less than a decade ago, it can be easy to forget there’s another Virginia.
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Virginia General Assembly to convene legislative redistricting session
Contributions from Koch Industries and its employees put freshman Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) in the middle of a broad partisan battle over the role of corporate money in U.S. politics.
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The details of a review of UK nuclear safety ordered after the Japanese crisis will be published by the middle of May, officials say.
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Nuclear report due in two months
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