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...department stores, forcing it into bankruptcy. And the bank initiated bankruptcy proceedings against First Credit Corp., Japan's biggest mortgage-loan specialist. Aside from overhauling its investment-banking business, Shinsei also launched a retail business featuring fee-free, 24-hour services at its network of 56,000 atms?a concept considered revolutionary here. Shinsei offers savers returns higher than those of traditional banks, at which, Yashiro notes, the annual interest income on a 1 million yen deposit?about $7,700?is worth the equivalent of two bus tickets. The lobby of Shinsei's steel-and-glass headquarters in central Tokyo...
...that will suffice in this area.” I tried calling my local “living wage scientist” to ask the same question, but he never returned my call. Casting about for any “scientifically determined minimum” I found a strange concept known as the “poverty line.” Excited by this discovery I hurried to report it to the living wage campaign. My excitement was dampened, however, when I discovered that the poverty line would yield an hourly wage of $9.05 for a family of four...
...mishandled equipment, but these mishaps pale in comparison to the outstanding solos and consistently solid ensemble playing. The show’s only real weakness is its lack of original music (the repertoire is mainly comprised of classical, jazz, and theater selections), which detracts from an otherwise innovative concept...
...building that you can’t even see from the street. Most people affiliated with Harvard University do not even realize that the place exists. I only knew about the place because I take a pottery class there on Friday afternoons—and still I had no concept that such an artistic colossus would visit...
Harvard’s coverage of these fields may very well be thin. But this argument portrays ethnic studies as only a means of obtaining courses to fill the ranks of fledgling departments, courses that may have little to do with the concept of ethnic identity. Latin America and Latino America are very different subjects, and it’s hard to see why their history or sociology must be studied under the same rubric of “ethnic studies”—implying that some groups and regions are “ethnic” while...