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...high that ads for the best jobs scroll along the bottom of prime-time programs on local TV. A free newspaper with job openings, the Urals Work Weekly, would be as thick as the yellow pages if such a phone book existed. Russia hasn't yet discovered equal opportunity laws, so most jobs stipulate that only those under 30 or 35 need apply. Then there's the range of opportunity. Want to become a sushi chef, a marketing consultant or a bank manager? No problem. No previous experience required. Nobody else in the country knows how to do those jobs...
...which Michelangelo worked on for 40 years-his original conception was never completed. Another sheet shows tiny first thoughts for the dying slaves which formed part of that scheme. One poem starts: "Alas, alas, I have been betrayed by my fleeting days ? " and concludes: "There is no harm equal to that of wasted time." The rest of the page is covered with odd figures by himself and pupils: a giraffe, a crab, a grasshopper, a skull. As the show travels through the artist's long life, the drawings, always impressive for their sheer brilliance, become increasingly personal: less part...
Befitting a tactician and power broker who once ran the Capitol with equal parts guile and muscle, DeLay did it his way as he prepared to leave public life. He shunned the weepy contrition deployed by disgraced predecessors over the years and instead went out pummeling. He threatened to make one of his last acts an ethics complaint against Representative Cynthia McKinney, who later apologized for striking a Capitol Police officer. He said conservatives needed a new leader. He accused Democrats of "criminalizing politics." He said lobbying reform would be a sop to "the left." Although he has been indicted...
...country for three weeks with nights of burning cars. Those underclass riots were politically inchoate, but they did represent the fury of people desperate to escape the marginality imposed on them by their ethnicity and the rigidity of the French bureaucratic state. Those immigrant riots, which had an equal touch of the existential anarchy of the student revolution of 1968, were, if anything, a revolt for precariousness--for risk, danger, upheaval...
...rare occasion—make us feel smug in our hearts.I came expecting to see the detritus of fashion worn by the types of Dave Matthews adherents who also want to go to law school. And that’s what I got. But, strangely enough, it was equal parts terrifying and refreshing.The journey started inauspiciously enough. After a layover in a bus terminal—during which I was only able to play a game of “I Spy Boston Red Sox Paraphernalia” with myself—I arrived at my destination. During my first...