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...labor fronts, is not an option today. "There's no way to create real jobs using this approach," says Harvard professor Roberto Mangabeira Unger. In the 1930s, you could throw 10,000 people with shovels at dam or road projects. Today the work of 10,000 shovels is done by a few machines - and it was a lot easier to persuade farmers to switch to ditchdigging than it would be to get laid-off hedge-fund traders to switch to sewer repair, appealing as such an idea might be. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...ignoring OPEC's calls for production cuts, Russia has shown OPEC how little power it wields over non-OPEC producers. Although Russian officials told an OPEC summit last December that they too would cut production, the country "has repeatedly failed to do so, and the Russian government has done absolutely nothing to exert its influence" on oil companies, says Julian Lee, senior analyst at the Center for Global Energy Studies in London. (See pictures from Azerbaijan's oil boom...
...able to reconcile the classist content of PETA’s recent ad campaigns. PETA, whose Wikipedia page has probably been flagged for bias as often as the one on Scientology, is no stranger to controversy and the absurd. In their fight to protect animals, they have done everything from hurling paint on old women wearing fur to distastefully comparing chicken farming to Nazism and the Holocaust.With the rise of ubiquitous internet media though, PETA has refocused their attack on the mediums with the highest hit count: pornography and viral videos.Whether the cause be “Don?...
There were no two ways around it, this week the yard reeked of shit. We are not talking about metaphorical shit, like what that kid in your philosophy section spins when he hasn’t done any of the reading and also he smoked WAY too much list night...
...just as the president was chastising Republicans for their venomous partisanship throughout the health-care debate. At the urging of the Republican leadership, though much to the regret of Rush Limbaugh, Wilson apologized to the president almost immediately following the comment. But the damage had been done. For any centrist or fence-sitter watching at home, Wilson’s outburst confirmed that Republicans have nothing else in mind than to kill the health-care bill for purely political reasons. His comment galvanized fiscally conservative Democrats to support the president’s bill and heightened the sense of despondency...