Charles W. Thomas was a desperate man. A lawyer and a career diplomat, Thomas, 45, had been "selected out" of the Foreign Service. Reason: he had not been promoted from the Class 4 level to Class 3 within the mandatory eight years. He was dismissed with only one year's salary and $323 a month (money he had himself put into a retirement fund) to support a wife and two children. In nearly three dispiriting years Thomas endured nearly 2,000 job rejection letters; he was "too old" or "too qualified," and anyway, he...
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