Today's Takeaway | June 15, 2012

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Friday, June 15, 2012

Summer Jobs Dwindling for America's Teens | Jamie Dimon and the Art of Apologizing | Advocates Against Sexual Abuse Take on Statute of Limitations | Friday Follow: The Future of Print Journalism, Sheldon Adelson, and White House Leaks | Egyptian Parliament Dissolved On the Eve of Elections | The Art of Rap | Ron Christie: The Week in Politics and HBO's "41" | This Week's Movie Date | Taking Stock: America's Changing Relationship with the Military

Greek Americans and This Weekend's Elections

Greek voters head to the polls this Sunday for the second time in less than two months after last month's elections failed to produce a government. The national parliamentary elections have far ranging impacts for not just Greece, but the future of the Eurozone. And this weekend's elections could be the most important in Greeks' lifetimes — something that's not lost on Greek Americans.

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Summer Jobs Dwindling for America's Teens

Today, fewer than three in ten American teenagers are able to find summer jobs. These figures have fallen off particularly quickly since 2000, and the number of 16- to 19-year-olds at work is at its lowest since World War II. Older workers, immigrants, and young college grads are now taking the low-level work formerly filled by America’s teenagers, and economists have suggested that this change might be permanent.

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Jamie Dimon and the Art of Apologizing

Earlier this week JP Morgan chief Jamie Dimon went up to Capitol Hill. He sat in front of a Senate committee, and Dimon... apologized. This got Takeaway Washington Correspondent Todd Zwillich thinking about other instances of public figures apologizing to Congress.

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Advocates Against Sexual Abuse Take on Statute of Limitations

Changing the statute of limitation has become a key battle for sex abuse victims. These statutes create deadlines for when a victim of abuse can press charges or bring a civil suit. The deadlines differ by state, but victims and their advocates in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New York are pushing to lengthen the deadlines — or, in some cases, get rid of them entirely.

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Follow Friday: The Future of Print Journalism, Sheldon Adelson, and White House Leaks

Jeff Yang and Farai Chideya join us for our weekly Friday Follow, looking back at the week's top stories. The two discuss New Orleans' Times-Picayune newspaper's shift from print to digital, Romney's new supporter Sheldon Adelson, White House leaks, the economic visions of both presidential candidates, and the new gay and lesbian iPhone emoticons.

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Taking Stock: America's Changing Relationship with the Military

Former United States Air Force General Lloyd "Fig" Newton sat down with us to speak about America’s changing relationship with the U.S. military and the fate of our country’s future with war.

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Egyptian Parliament Dissolved On the Eve of Elections

Sixteen months after President Hosni Mubarak was ousted, Cairo continues to be at the epicenter of democratic turmoil. On the brink of the second round of presidential elections this weekend, Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court has dissolved the Parliament. The act makes relations between the Supreme Constitutional Court and the Muslim Brotherhood seem increasingly fraught.

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Ron Christie: The Week in Politics and HBO's "41"

After a week filled with political stumping across the country, new numbers that show political fundraising is set to go into the billions, and two major addresses yesterday on the economy, we review the week with Ron Christie, Takeaway contributor and Republican political strategist. Ron also reviews HBO's documentary "41," an intimate look at the life of George H.W. Bush.

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This Week's Movie Releases: "Rock of Ages"

It’s Friday, when our Movie Date podcast team tells us which film releases are worth a night out. This week’s big release is “Rock of Ages,” the all-star love letter to 1980s hair metal.

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The Art of Rap

When people think of music as art they may think of a piano sonata by Mozart or a thrilling piece of be-bop by Charlie Parker, but a new documentary suggests that the title of "art" should also be bestowed on hip hop. Legendary rapper Ice T is the director of a new film called "Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap," which opens in limited release today.

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