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...couldn't create a better advocate for the green-collar movement than Jones. A Yale-educated lawyer who founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, the magnetic Jones moves easily between worlds, at home preaching to inner-city high school students or mixing with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. But everywhere Jones goes, he repeats a simple message. "Give the work that most needs to be done to the people who most need the work," he says, and solve two pressing problems--pollution and poverty--at once...
...corruption, including forged paperwork, payoffs to women who agree to hand over their children and, in some cases, newborns stolen from hospitals or mothers' arms, according to the government human rights ombudsman's office. One U.S. couple spent almost two years and $50,000 to adopt their Guatemalan daughter, Ella, only to find out later that her biological mother "was essentially a baby factory" who had sold many of her eight children to a dealer, says the adoptive father. "It felt almost dirty, like we were involved in a child brokering scheme...
...will boo-hoo straight through this simple-minded, cheaply sentimental and unrelievedly lugubrious movie. Me, I made it to the long-delayed ending by shutting my eyes and ears to its dramatic passages and pretending it was a concert film. Sometimes my straying mind settled on the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Anita O'Day, who must surely have had their troubles, but refused to wear them on their sleeves or on their bravely scatting tongues...
...other/ You can stand under my umbrella") owe more to Doris Day than Madonna. But Rihanna, a Barbadian ex--beauty queen who just released her third album, has a special talent for vocal innuendo. She toys with the word umbrella--or, as Rihanna would put it, um-ba-rella, ella, ella--as if she's taking it for a ride on a water bed. It's hard to believe there will be a sexier song this summer...
Face it, your love affair with Starbucks has never been about the coffee. You like the plush armchairs, the mood lighting, the cerebral clientele; they all beckon you to sit down and ponder. While you wait in line, you can browse CD compilations of Ella Fitzgerald and John Lennon, courtesy of the company’s in-house record label. Local art often adorns the walls. Instructive signs remind you of the indigent farmers built into the price premium...