"Speakers reach for words that fit the times" by Bella English, Globe Staff | May 14, 2009
Instead of making their way into the real world, many new grads will be returning home to live with their parents.
I'm there and I'm waiting for you.
He plans to speak about the silver lining of dark days....
"I'll tell them that rather than stay at home and bemoan your fate, volunteer for something...."
Pfft! Like the SERVICE?
Car czar and philanthropist Don Rodman doesn't have any jobs to offer, but he has taken on some volunteers....
See: The Boston Sunday Globe Says Job Loss is a Good Thing
Also see: The Layoff is the Lesson
"I think the only thing people have to sell is themselves"
I always feel so slimy and disingenuous when I have to do that.
Yeah, turn me off to economy even more!
US Senator John F. Kerry says he has met "a ton of 4.0 GPA grads-to-be who would've been snatched up by employers in past years who are still looking for a job."
Then how the f*** am I to find one.
Congressman Michael Capuano: "The bottom line is, no matter how tough it is, we are all lucky enough to be born here in America....
Easy for you to say, s***ter: BU Bummer
They've got a great preparation to run the world when it becomes their turn."
Could I say it any more starkly?
Few people are better equipped to speak about surviving tough times than CBS news correspondent Kimberly Dozier, who was critically injured in a 2006 car bomb attack in Iraq that killed an American soldier, an Iraqi translator, and two CBS crew members. Dozier will speak June 5 at Wellesley College, her alma mater.
"I tell all groups of students I meet with right now that they're at the right end of the spectrum to get work - they're cheap labor, they're eager to learn new skills, especially when it comes to the media where the walls have broken down between print, radio, and video and sometimes it takes a while for the older generation to catch up with that," Dozier says.
Hello, reader.
:-)
Dozier, who now covers the Treasury Department for CBS, says she'll tell students that she's living proof that "you might not end up doing what you thought or hoped or wished you'd do, but you have to ask yourself: Why did I choose this particular vocation? Was it to change minds? Policy? Are you still getting a chance to do that? Then go with it."
Why did I choose to promote 9/11 Truth?
Because I LOVE LIFE and this world, and hate to see it destroyed over lies!!!!
Related: Ken Burns is a 9/11 Truther
Author Dennis Lehane told graduates of Emmanuel College last Saturday that the future of the country is brighter than it was four years ago, when he also gave a commencement address.
"When the economy was booming, I was literally apologizing for [my generation] screwing up the world to this degree. And now I feel like it's a much more hopeful time to be a college graduate than it was four years ago," he said in an interview before the address. "There's a feeling that we're on this big ocean liner and it's just begun to tack. It's going to take a while to get to 180 degrees again."WTF is that guy smoking?
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Of course, for some it is:
"Graduation, recession style; For many, pomp being tempered by circumstances" by Tracy Jan, Globe Staff | May 14, 2009
It's a springtime ritual, one eagerly anticipated by hoteliers and restaurateurs. Each weekend starting this month and through the beginning of June, scores of parents descend upon the region for the college commencement season. In boom times, they rack up hotel bills, splurge on meals, and open their wallets at the shops along Newbury Street.
But this year, amid the recession, many families are injecting a sobering dose of frugality into the pomp and circumstance. More moms and dads are eschewing hotels to bunk in Spartan dormitory rooms or squeezing into their children's apartments for the weekend....
Oh, I'm sure the kid is LOOOOVING THAT!!!!
But GUESS who DOESN'T HAVE to WORRY!
For high-end hotels and restaurants, though, the party continues as usual, with no cancellations for bookings made as far as a year in advance. After all, they say, graduation is no time to scrimp.
You lick that plate of s*** clean yet, 'murkn?
In some quarters, though, parents are still shelling out big bucks for a luxurious commencement experience....
Not saying they don't deserve it -- but SO DOES EVERY KID!!
Trillions for wars and ban.... awwww, what's the use!!!
"Part of it is Harvard," she said. "There is still a lot of money at Harvard."
And we know whom they are training and why, don't we?
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