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...make livelihoods more lively, Wrzesniewski and her colleagues Jane Dutton and Justin Berg have developed a methodology they call job-crafting. They're working with Fortune 500 companies, smaller firms and business schools to change the way Americans think about work. The idea is to make all jobs - even mundane ones - more meaningful by empowering employees to brainstorm and implement subtle but significant workplace adjustments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hate Your Job? Here's How to Reshape It | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...North Sea in 1920, and from the outset he seems a figure emerged from Bolaño’s dreams: “He didn’t like the earth, much less forests. He didn’t like the sea either, or what ordinary mortals call the sea, which is really only the surface of the sea, waves kicked up by the wind that have gradually become the metaphor for defeat and madness. What he liked was the seabed, that other earth, with its plains that weren’t plains and valleys that weren?...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Topography of Hell: Roberto Bolaño’s ‘2666’ | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...Jefferson Airplane: “White Rabbit” - “And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you’re going to fall, tell ‘em a hookah smoking caterpillar has given you the call...

Author: By Rachel A. Burns, Jeffrey W. Feldman, Ama R. Francis, Jessica R. Henderson, Joshua J. Kearney, Eunice Y. Kim, Chris R. Kingston, Ali R. Leskowitz, Beryl C.D. Lipton, Monica S. Liu, Ryan J. Meehan, Antonia M.R. Peacocke, Erika P. Pierson, Bram A. Strochlic, Mark A. VanMiddlesworth, and Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Editor's Picks 2009 | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...Some call this skepticism a lack of leadership. There’s some truth to that. But considering their limited interest in the outcome of this war and the political cost of staying involved, there is something heartening about the fact that they continue to show such solidarity with...

Author: By Clay A. Dumas | Title: Across the Pond | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...over-emphasizing elections as a political panacea. A transparent vote is of course a good thing - but for too long the U.S. has given Latin countries the impression that it's the only thing, muffling the harder message that real democracy is what happens after elections. Critics may call Chávez an authoritarian Castro wannabe. Yet he's remained in power for 10 years, and may well last another 10, in part because he's exploited Washington's election obsession. He's been cleanly voted in three times and that's helped him retain a democratic legitimacy despite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Latin American Policy Looks Like Bush's | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

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