Then came the news that Ellen's own marriage had ended in disaster, and that she was herself returning home to seek rest and oblivion among her kinsfolk.
The tentative optimism in Europe contrasts with the news from the U. S., where there is mounting evidence that the already sluggish recovery has lost momentum.
The good news is that we've made a lot of the mistakes already and we've learned some lessons (see this technical rant, this post-mortem or this experiment).
Our source also noted that in their contract, A.T. Kearney explicitly states that the base salary will not be increased until January 2013, which is approximately 1.5 years after starting fulltime.