Yesterday I saw a great movie - "Up in the Air" starring George Clooney.  In the movie, Clooney plays a man whose job is to fire employees who companies are too squeamish to handle the ugly task themselves.

As you can imagine, much of what Clooney says to the laid-off is carefully worded due to legal restrictions.  His words of consolence come across as trite and incomprehensible to his newly unemployed audience.

To paraphrase, Clooney's signature line is: because you've gone through this expe...
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