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...University Sees Renovation Blitz,” News, Aug. 5: The code-of-conduct-for-construction-worker signs conspicuously placed around Sever Hall perpetuate a class stereotype of these workers as cigarette-smoking, beer-drinking, misogynistic, homophobes ignorant of how to behave on the civilized confines of an Ivy League university. If I were one of these workers I would feel humiliated by the condescension of these signs, and their public display would add to the insult. Construction workers may be so unevolved that they earn their living by the sweat of their brow, but they are human beings...
Will Mitsubishi's new pocket rocket, the 263-h.p. Eclipse GT, jump-start sales at Japan's most troubled automaker? The car hit dealerships this summer, lofted by strong reviews, and it leads a blitz of all-new models coming over the next two years. Unlike the profit machines Honda, Nissan and Toyota, Mitsubishi has been in automaker hell. The firm's corporate parent lost $4.4 billion in the past fiscal year, battered by a lingering scandal over vehicle defects, and U.S. sales plummeted one-third this year amid questions about whether Mitsubishi would vacate North America. That seems less...
...Photos: London Carnage • Map: The Bombings • Question of the Week • TIME Collection: al-Qaeda • Photos: A New Blitz...
...small ways: gardening, sports, pets, pubs, stamps, crossword puzzles. Part of this is now patriotic mythology. But part is also the enculturated national DNA to see these things not as trivial but as integral to the life of a free people. These things didn't stop, even during the Blitz, when thousands lived through night after night with the prospect of being incinerated by bombs from the sky. Part of fighting the war, the Brits realized, was military. But part was also a refusal to change a way of life, however small its detail, however petty its peeves...
...Photos: London Carnage • Map: The Bombings • Question of the Week • TIME Collection: al-Qaeda • Photos: A New Blitz...