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...former site of an army barracks on leafy Harding Road is home to the PS Caf?, tel: (65) 6479 3343. This elegant restaurant of glass and timber serves what co-owner Philip Chin calls "casual gourmet" dishes, the best of which may be the superbly executed, fall-off-the-bone duck rendang. For years, Chin and his partners aspired to establish a suburban offshoot of their trendy downtown venue, Project Shop Caf?: with its retro furniture and jazzy ambience, PS represents the ample fulfillment of that dream...
Three years ago, I worked with the Harvard Progressive Advocacy Group (HPAG) on a bill currently making its way through the Massachusetts State House. The bill seems extraordinarily mundane to most casual observers: It seeks to regulate companies that store the belongings of those who are evicted from their homes, prohibiting arbitrary fees and holding the companies liable for damaged property. But what I remember about it is emphatically not mundane—I couldn’t tell you about the details of the bill or the facts and figures that comprised the argument for it, but I could...
...Denmark, young people are given a kind of loose attachment to the labor market and do not have the same rights as anybody else. The Danish government is proposing that people under 30 should have reduced unemployment benefits if they don't have [ certain educational qualifications ]. The system of casual laborers and contracts is becoming more and more common for young people. Labor-market flexibility must be combined with a solid system of collective agreements, unemployment benefits and a tightly meshed social-security net. That's what we call flexicurity, and that's a good system, but it doesn...
...Vietnam. To those of us who were truly counterculture--who became career members of the military during those rough times--the song conveyed a very different message. To us, its lyrics evoked a feeling that we must never again stand by quietly while those ignorant of and casual about war lead us into another one and then mismanage the conduct of it. Never again, we thought, would our military's senior leaders remain silent as American troops were marched off to an ill-considered engagement. It's 35 years later, and the judgment is in: the Who had it wrong...
...City's hippest new restaurants, it's time to head into the woods. The former site of an army barracks on leafy Harding Road is home to the PS Café, tel: (65) 6479 3343. This elegant restaurant of glass and timber serves what co-owner Philip Chin calls "casual gourmet" dishes, the best of which may be the superbly executed, fall-off-the-bone duck rendang. For years, Chin and his partners aspired to establish a suburban offshoot of their trendy Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic...