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...generation of college students of being politically apathetic. At Harvard, political activism might be out of style. But all of the potential lobbyists, demonstrators, letter-writers, and strikers have not retired, they have only changed tactics, leaving the steps of University Hall for schools, prisons, soup kitchens and far-flung neighborhoods...
...works Thursday to Monday from 11:45 a.m. to 8:45 p.m. On Monday and Thursday mornings, he takes a class in English composition at the extension school. He drives a limousine for Commonwealth Limousine Service on his two days off to the airport, hotels, New Hampshire and other far-flung destinations. "Driving here is the worst," he said. "In New York, at least the roads are one way, but, here there are lots of rotaries. It's very dangerous. There will be three exits, and you have to memorize the route, or you just go around, and around...
...both traffic cop and top court of the global economy. And as shown by China's bid for admission last week, the organization seems about to extend its gospel of no-pain, no-gain capitalism across the planet. The WTO's 36,000 pages of regulations reach into far-flung crannies of human existence. Can Malaysian fishermen export their shrimp to the U.S. even if their nets lack escape hatches for endangered turtles? Yes. Can Massachusetts refuse to buy products from companies that do business in Myanmar? No. Do American corporations get an illegal export subsidy by setting up legal...
...once again undergoing a sea change. We are not the first nor are we the only species to spread around the globe, but we are the first to do so as an integrated economic entity. Other species maintain tenuous genetic connections, but no direct ecological connections, among their far-flung members. We, in contrast, are exchanging more than $1 trillion of goods and services among ourselves globally every...
...juts obtrusively into the dining space.) The entire room is flooded with light from a skylight that does wonderfully incorporate the natural world into this unnatural place, and a few scattered pictures of other parts of Harvard on the walls do also remind diners of the world outside this far-flung commensal oasis...