The Times was being kind to the Tour d'Argent, I think. Sure, some of their problem probably comes from the recession, but they lost two of their three stars, their revenues would be way down no matter what the economy was doing.
Sidenote: doesn't Tour d'Argent mean Tower of Money? Because whoa, irony.
I have absolutely no problems with paying tax. That said...I wish my money didn't have to benefits asshats like the sign holder.
Some want to opt out of Social Security because they think they can manage their money better than the Government. I want to opt out in the name of spite.
That's pretty obvious considering this sign wasn't inked in their own saliva and blood and excrement. Which is pretty much all the poors have left with which to communicate.
@miss_msry: My sign says "I'd rather have scurvy and rickets than affordable healthcare because I'm a dumbass who thinks lowering taxes on billionaires is actually going to stimulate the economy or help my sorry, sick ass in any way." On the other side it says "Go Tigers."
@Brad Brown: My backup plan was moving to Northern California and growing pot, but after pot is legalized the market will just be taken over by Archer Midlands or Smithfield Farms. I may have to join you in the porn, but I've heard times are getting hard (no pun intended) for the pornmeisters because there is too much free stuff on the internets. I'm thinking Ponzi scheme may be the way to go.
@MyNameIsChris: More like a plug-ignorant illiteracy problem (spelled socialist as "socialis" ~ not the first time I have seen that) patched up at the ninth hour. No wonder the poor bastard is unemployable.
how the hell is OTB $80m in debt when (according to the article) they make $1b in bets every year? Don't they take a cut on the payout? Unless Monty Brewster rolled in and put $50,000 on every longshot to win at Aqueduct, how the hell is it a losing business?
I used to get sexually harassed at the gym. There was an employee there who would offer me free tanning on the unspoken condition that he got to "check in" midway through and peep at my junk. Then I turned thirty, and it stopped happening. I miss all that...
As I think has been discussed here before, many big firms are paying some of their associates or soon-to-be associates about 1/3 of their salary (which is still quite a lot) to work for a year or two in the public sector before working at the firm (though who knows if their jobs will still be there when they are done). As a result, I've heard that many public sector jobs have more lawyers applying than they can use.
So this situation at Harvard may suck for some 3Ls who never tried to get a big-firm job in the first place, but I don't think it is hurting the public sector too much, at least not for the time being.
@Atilla the Bun: It'll hurt the public sector when all of those people head back to the firms at the end of their exile, and all of the people who wanted to work for the public sector are too frozen in their boxes under the BQE (one of New York's classier expressways) to lateral.
This is such a shame. I know many law students who have a strong desire to work in the public sector but it's just not a realistic option for them. The monstrous student loan debt means they would have to make some very hard sacrifices. There are very few public sector jobs that pay a decent wage that allows them to pay off their debt and still be able to eat anything other than beans from a can. I know NYU had a terrific loan repayment program for their law students that only required them to work 3 years at a non-profit or public sector job. I hope they won't have to curtail or cancel their entire program as well. I wouldn't blame Harvard students if they decided to chase after Larry Summers with pitchforks and torches.
@heywhat: I graduated from NYU five years ago, and they changed their loan repayment program during my final year. It used to require that students commit to work five years in the public sector, and they increased it to ten. Whether, and how much is repaid on one's loans by their program is based on a sliding scale, depending on how much you make. It's quite complicated now, particularly for those who want to be stay-at-home mothers or fathers for a year or two and then return to work in the public sector again.
@heywhat: Not to indulge too much in Negative Nancyhood, but NYU's repayment program isn't nearly that good. NYU does have the Root/Tilden/Kern scholarships--ones that, more often than not, go to a bunch of Those Kids who spend years irritating the heck out of you in Constitutional Law and Federal Courts, when they're not bolting to Yale the first chance they get--but the rest of the public interest rank-and-file have to deal with an LRAP plan that doesn't necessarily cover all loans and makes it functionally impossible to work for the federal government (whose starting salaries tend to be just high enough to make the LRAP contribution negligible). Add to this the huge number of deferred BigLaw associates who are pretending to care about gays/the environment/the homeless for a year before returning to Skadden for perpetual M&A, and you have one terrifyingly nerve-wracking public-interest job search for current 3Ls.
@GaythamWatkins: Thanks for this. My knowledge of NYU's loan repayment program was second and third hand. I didn't know it was so cumbersome. Whenever any school talks about starting a loan repayment program they always point to NYU's as the most successful model. You're right about all of the BigLaw associates who are ruining the job market for people who actually want to work in the public sector. Whenever I hear my friends complaining about their job prospects, I always ask why the BigLaw types are even getting jobs since everyone knows they will bolt the second the economy rebounds. I always get the same answer: a law degree from a prestigious school and/or good GPAs, law review ect. trump everything. It's like employers are label whores and only care about the superficial stuff.
@grahameday: I didn't know it was ten years. You would never know from the way they market their LRAP program that they are not fully committed to helping lawyers who want to serve in the public sector but are not financially able.
I'm sorry, these urbanites/suburbanites who move to the country are morons. Farming's hard work, there's not much money in it, and there's a reason why rural areas are dying off.
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That's pretty obvious considering this sign wasn't inked in their own saliva and blood and excrement. Which is pretty much all the poors have left with which to communicate.
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So this situation at Harvard may suck for some 3Ls who never tried to get a big-firm job in the first place, but I don't think it is hurting the public sector too much, at least not for the time being.
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