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...just a push for market share. Omidyar and his colleagues are still driven by the company's original goal of creating a global market where everyone competes on an equal footing. One pet project is an effort to bring a Guatemalan village into the global economy by hooking it up to eBay. Consumers in the developed world could buy local handcrafts at lower prices, and eliminating layers of middlemen would allow villagers to keep more of the purchase price for themselves...
...grease pumps from the 1920s, Three Stooges memorabilia--you name it, some American somewhere collects it. "We define ourselves by our stuff," says Robert Thompson, president of the Popular Culture Association and a Syracuse University professor who specializes in the study of collectibles. In a democracy, with everyone theoretically equal, people want to be different. We don't have a caste system; we've never had a blood-line aristocracy. We've distinguished ourselves by our cars, by the clothes we wear, by the stuff we buy and sell. "I suppose you can lament all the consumerist tendencies in this...
...last meeting, the council adopted an order emblematic of Triantafillou's compassionate approach. It unanimously voted to provide $200,000--a sum equal to that provided for the city's millennium light show--for a program to increase safety for women walking the streets of Cambridge late at night...
...biracial identities is reflected in American society. For instance, recall the recent uproar over allowing individuals to check more than one box for race on the census. Government bureaucrats protested against this proposal for years, arguing that it would skew figures needed to determine if minorities were receiving equal access to government programs...
...emotional support,' don't we all need a bit of that?" Perhaps what's really needed at Harvard is not a women's center to address intricate issues of gender politics, but a center to soothe the bleeding wounds of young soldiers like Oppenheim who fight valiantly for equal opportunity...