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...they went to work. Elizabeth sat at her mother's desk and colored and cruised www.americangirl.com while her mother, a research scientist, worked in a glass-walled lab a few feet away. Elizabeth drank plenty of fluids, got lots of hugs and ate lunch with Mom in the employee cafeteria. The next day she went back to school while her mother played catch-up at work...
...Microsoft cafeteria in Redmond, Wash., the government's antitrust suit against the company is frequently discussed among people who (like me) have no inside knowledge of what is actually going on in the negotiations. Slate, the online magazine I edit, is owned by Microsoft, so discount anything I say accordingly as you please. But having lived and worked among them for four years, I have found the attitude of folks inside the company pretty interesting, and maybe you will too. Not people like Bill Gates, or those who write the legal briefs and press releases, but the ordinary software developer...
...that developer in the cafeteria, "Joel Klein" is a symbol more than a person. He is the personification of arrogance and unreason, and of a powerful institution that is misusing its power. Klein and Attorney General Janet Reno and the DOJ, in other words, are regarded in Redmond as cartoon figures, rather like the image of Gates and Microsoft projected by rivals and echoed in the antitrust suit. Each side holds this cartoon view of the other but cannot fathom why anyone would hold such a cartoon view...
...approached the Harvard Law School's Harkness Cafeteria tray drop-off one morning last fall, a hand appeared in the small slit in the wall that divides the kitchen from the dining room. Then I heard someone's voice on the other side of the wall offering to take my tray...
...involvement with the Harvard Living Wage Campaign began that afternoon. The sight of Bob's anonymous arm and the cafeteria's multi-million dollar Joan Miro installation that framed it became for me an icon of the skewed institutional values that subject Harvard's working-poor to unnecessary and, in a very real sense, invisible hardship...