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...rating has been given this year to movies such as The Erotic Misadventures of the Invisible Man and MTV’s The Real Cancun, which slipped away from an NC-17 rating despite several portrayals of people actually having sex. At the other end of the spectrum are films like Lost in Translation and Raising Victor Vargas, whose mature themes are limited to the emotional evolution of the characters but are still restricted from under-17 audiences so that they can’t hear a handful of naughty words...
Because we're living in an economy only a Puritan could love. When profits began falling, out went lavish holiday parties. Company retreats retreated from Cancun to the conference room. "If, say, on Friday, you announce layoffs and no raises, but hey, next week I'm taking everyone to Hawaii--no, that you can't do," says Bob Moog, founder and CEO of University Games in San Francisco, which has bucked the trend by not emptying the employee goody bag. Economists marvel at the productivity of this new new economy. The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced in August that output...
...pure pleasure I expected has been tangled with moments of discomfort and loneliness—the kind you experience Freshman Week. Remember Freshman Week? Would you ever want to go through that numbing mix of Cancun-like revelry and complete emotional isolation again? Because that’s of course what you inevitably get if you enroll in a university overseas, not to mention a healthy dose of being stared at because of your accent...
Take the WTO ministerial in Cancun. The long anticipated trade talks were quickly abandoned when developing country representatives marched out en masse. One of their chief objections was the developed nations’ intransigence on the issue of agricultural subsidies. According to a recent Oxfam trade report, Northern governments currently shell out one billion dollars in agricultural subsidies every day. But perhaps the most interesting thing about the subsidies controversy is its failure to conform to any simple ideological mold. By making free trade advocates of the developing countries, it turns the usual caricature of the globalization debate...
While it was heartening to see the developing nations display such solidarity in Cancun, the breakdown of the trade talks means that northern subsidies will not disappear anytime soon. Worse, the rich nations will likely turn their energies to negotiating bilateral and regional trade agreements in order to circumvent the WTO altogether. These smaller scale trade deals would handicap the developing countries, picking apart the united front which they posed in Cancun. To many advocates of developing nations, the WTO suddenly doesn’t look quite...