Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't
     In most towns, the citizenry gives a new public official a decent period of time to prove himself or herself before they start storming town hall with flaming torches, like the villagers in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein."
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Coda
Dog Days of Summer, and the time's a-wastin'
Greg Bean
     A new survey by Salary.com and America Online finds that the average American worker wastes about 1.86 hours every day, not counting lunch.
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