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...Davos, French President Nicolas Sarkozy blamed globalization for the financial crisis. However, what we need is more, not less, globalization—Michael Dawson, a political science Professor at the University of Chicago, devised the term “linked fate,” a concept in which interdependence, which is similar to globalization, is key to promoting group interests above individual interest. In determining public policy, powerful social concepts such as linked fate can be very useful for coming up with practical and sustainable solutions. To remedy the financial whooping cough Americans are going through, policy experts...
...wages have been cut in half, which has translated to even lower production-labor costs. "We will not stand for further concessions negotiated by our representatives," proclaimed a resolution that was turned in for consideration at the UAW convention in June by workers from the Ford assembly plant in Chicago. "I've never seen people so frustrated," says a veteran UAW official in Detroit. "These are hard jobs. You might not lift as much as in the old days, but the intensity has gone...
Levin-Gesundheit added that Garlin was selected because he began his acting career in improvisation. Garlin was a member of The Second City, a well-known improv theatre in Chicago that has housed celebrity comics including Tina Fey and Rachel Dratch...
...addition to executive producing and co-starring in "Curb Your Enthusiasm," Garlin was the voice actor for the spaceship captain in "WALL-E." He began his career in improvisation, performing with Second City in Chicago, a group whose illustrious alums include Tina Fey and Rachel Dratch...
Jarrett recounted her first interactions with the Obamas, when she interviewed Michelle Obama for a job with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley in 1991. Her decades-long relationship with Obama has strengthened her ability to advise the President, Jarrett said, as she understands the important elements of his character, including an “even-keeled temperament” and “a sense of empathy...