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Spitzer took it to heart. While still an undergraduate at Princeton, he took off for the South one summer to work at menial jobs. He hit the day-labor agencies at dawn and took whatever was available--stacking fiber-glass insulation at a warehouse, operating a jackhammer, cleaning up a sewage overflow at a hotel. He also worked that summer as a migrant laborer in upstate New York, side by side with Mexicans picking tomatoes. "I'd had a comfortable upbringing," says Spitzer, "so I wanted to experience harder work, to see the world from a different perspective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eliot Spitzer: Wall Street's Top Cop | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

...these games have been around for a century or more. You also mention running, which has been a competitive sport since at least the time of ancient Greece. I doubt that the average 21st century person truly stands a greater chance of being disabled by arthritis than the dawn-to-dusk laborer of past generations. MARK STUART ELLISON New York City

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 30, 2002 | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

...Czar's children or pauses to scrutinize a Van Dyck Madonna or performs his own virtuoso minuet when he enters the Nicholas Hall to discover a ballroom full of whirling aristocrats who dance the night away and finally exit down the grand staircase and out of the palace at dawn for a coda that will have the movie's audience gasping in exhilarated exhaustion, whispering astonished gratitude to Sokurov for having created vigorous art out of 21st century video technique and asking themselves, "What's the Russian word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holiday Movie Preview: Russian Ark | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

...building to Brian Byrne, The Crimson’s press operator, and his assistant George. As it is, with George coming in to the building to start burning plates at about 4 a.m., and Brian firing up the presses at 6, few people besides FM (where closing out at dawn is the actually the goal) get to interact with these very nice men and skilled professionals. All Crimson editors should have the chance to marvel at the sight of a human being smoking an entire pack of Basic cigarettes at 5 a.m. while simultaneously handling corrosive chemicals...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The FM Way: Fifteen Steps to Self-Improvement | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

...their platform, Chopra and Stannard-Friel underscored extending shuttle service until dawn, expanding Office of Career Services hours, assisting student groups in winning grants by consolidating applications for funding, lobbying for student representation on the Ad Board and presenting a thorough plan for a student center to be constructed after the University moves to Allston...

Author: By Alexander J. Blenkinsopp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Hopefuls Promote Platforms | 12/6/2002 | See Source »

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