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...local people or their own nationals. But only in the last half-century did they begin to participate fully in the bureaucratic inanity of modern government. Perhaps more than any other political institution, national consulates demonstrate the discrepancy between our hopes for meaningful government and the pragmatic reality of faceless, centralized administration. Instead of providing informed support (and often despite well-intentioned efforts to do so), governmental bodies are mired in paranoid self-regulation. Because, internally, what really matters to the government is not that the average citizen shouldn’t have to pay $100 to obtain basic travel...
...raised some eyebrows and a few questions. Are these student representatives a welcome presence on campus, and do they add something valuable to the undergraduate experiences of their peers?Or can it be that they are simply viewed like the young women handing out gum in front of CVS: faceless figures doing the work of impersonal and (ironically enough) generic brand names, adding to the overly commercial feel of college life? Perhaps this “ridiculously long lasting gum” (the Stride slogan) has finally overstayed its welcome. REPPING THE ‘ASPIRATIONAL’ BRANDHarvard?...
...retraining is part of Wal-Mart's response to critics who accuse the company of being a repository of faceless, low-paying work. Now it's threatening to get squishy, rolling out an idea called Associates Out in Front, known as active listening in the HR trade. Store managers must meet with 10 associates each week and hear them...
...rulers of the world's pariah states are usually recognizable personalities. Kim Jong Il with his electrified hairdo, Muammar Gaddafi with his aviator sunglasses, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with his penchant for windbreakers. But Burma? No one dictator comes to mind, only a coterie of faceless generals - 12, if one wants to be exact. Last week, in the junta's latest wave of repression, soldiers fired on thousands of peaceful protesters who had dared challenge its iron-fisted rule, killing dozens, according to initial U.N. estimates. But the question remains: Who exactly are the brutal generals behind one of the world...
...favored successor have also raised hopes. But a change of guard may not mean much. The Burmese military has ruled with an iron grip for 45 years, and predicting its demise - or even nascent reform within its ranks - is a dangerous bet. Burma's generals may be faceless, but they have outlasted most of the world's better-known dictators...