Taken separately, they inform in a sporadic way. Taken together, they cast a laser-bright light on these times.
On the top right of the page:
DEEPENING CYCLE
OF JOB LOSS SEEN
LASTING INTO '09
WEAK SIGNALS PERSIST
OF JOB LOSS SEEN
LASTING INTO '09
WEAK SIGNALS PERSIST
Directly beneath it:
Stock Exchange’s Former Chief
Wins Court Battle to Keep Pay.
Wins Court Battle to Keep Pay.
(The “pay” in question was $187.5 million paid to Richard A. Grasso.)
And then over to the left on the bottom of the page, this:
Helmsley, Dogs’ Best Friend,
Left Them Up to $8 Billion
Left Them Up to $8 Billion
(The Helmsley in question is the late hotelier, real estate magnate and convicted tax-evader Leona Helmsley. Helmsley left her own dog, "Trouble" by name, $12 million. It was Helmsley who famously said, "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.")
There you have it. A journalistic snapshot of our American society on one summer’s day in 2008, the eighth year of the reign of George W. Bush.
I suppose I could throw into the mix one other story from the front page, but it is a dot harder to connect. Upper left on the page:
CHINA INSPIRED
INTERROGATIONS
AT GUANTANAMO
COMMUNIST TECHNIQUES
Military Used ’57 Study
of Steps That Led to
False Confessions
INTERROGATIONS
AT GUANTANAMO
COMMUNIST TECHNIQUES
Military Used ’57 Study
of Steps That Led to
False Confessions
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