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Building the Panama Canal involved more than the moving of great steam-powered digging machines. The most difficult task was quickly establishing what amounted to a brand new nation. Cities had to be built, diseases had to be eradicated, and thousands upon thousands of workers had to be shipped in, and housed, and fed, and entertained, and jailed, and cared for, and buried when that caring for failed. Greene sees the Canal Zone as a melting pot whose constituent pieces never quite came together; her book explores the racial and economic conflicts that arose as a result...
...Real humanity takes place in the practice of everyday life, in the fine textures of workaday relationships. It is awfully difficult. Service can’t be used to balance off an imagined moral ledger sheet or to cancel out privileges we feel bad about. Instead, we should try to avoid accumulating too much vulgar privilege in the first place—a quantity that isn’t measured in crude indexes like money or education or employment, but in the degree to which our social behavior trends either toward humility or toward hierarchism...
...heels of a massive economic recovery bill last week, Obama’s announcement that he will drastically cut the budget deficit over the course of his presidency seems highly difficult to accept. Fortunately, the administration has made it clear that it has proposals on how to reduce the deficit, and we are hopeful that it can actually accomplish these promised cuts. Reducing the federal budget deficit is essential to maintaining a healthy economy in the long term...
Although the decision to increase the stipend amount and the number of internships was made long before the global financial crisis hit its peak this year, the rise in the applicant pool likely reflects student demand for stable, paying internships in a difficult job market...
While it is easy to complain about The College’s plan to increase tuition in these difficult times, one must realize that it is precisely at these times that, as a community, we must take steps to ensure that our institution does not languish...