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Yes, the GOP presidential candidates debated again last night, and yes, a Florida judge at least momentarily delayed the return of Elián González to Cuba, and yes, the Supreme Court says Microsoft has to let its temp workers in on its good-deal stock purchase plan, but everybody leads with yesterday's surprise announcement of AOL's purchase of Time Warner, the first acquisition of an old media company (co-founded 75 years ago by Henry Luce) by a new media one (only 15 years old), the largest media merger of all time, and indeed, the just-plain largest merger of all time.
Another factor, says the Journal , is the rise of temp agencies in this country.
To try to get some sort of independent measure of what these jobs are worth, I called Kelly Services, the nationwide temp agency.
Listeria monocytogenes (strain 10403S) were grown overnight in 3 mls of Brain Heart Infusion media at room temp without shaking.
If you were an unmarried forty-something very beautiful woman named Lesley Friedman who had cashed out her lawyer temp business for $21 million and had moved to Palm Beach but couldn't get a husband, you could pay for one of those tiny little ads in New York or the New York Review of Books . But ugh, then you'd be getting asked out by assistant professors or public interest lawyers who didn't make partner somewhere.