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...World Trade Organization conference in Seattle see government as neither the problem nor the solution. They carried signs saying END CORPORATE RULE. And the masked hoodlums who turned the city into a battleground didn't trash government offices; they went after Niketown, Starbucks and the Gap. The labor-environmental coalition that stymied the WTO wants powerful global organizations that will punish companies that exploit workers and pollute the countryside. Ask them what they want Congress to do, and you'll get a puzzled look. For them, Congress is pretty much beside the point...
...when will we retire? Many people 65 and over will probably find themselves in demand, hired as consultants by companies facing the giant labor shortage coming when baby boomers retire (and the concomitant knowledge gap coming when ever younger workers take their places). These older workers will return from retirement or, better yet, never retire. Already nearly 70% of us expect to work after age 65. The question is, Which is more stifling, the paternalistic company with its gold watch as a reward for lifetime service, or the new paradigm: all work, all the time, all your life...
...merges with an equally dynamic strain in American religion: the empowering of the laity. All sorts of Christians (and Jews and Buddhists) are tempering the CEO model of leadership with one that allows churchgoers to be pastoral counselors or high-ranking administrators. Again, women have rushed to fill the gap...
...These external differences dissolved when the two took the stage. Mann and Penn bridged the gap between folk and pop. Their voices wove together seamlessly, as did their songs. As the pair bounced their unique take on life's little (and not-so-little) roadblocks off of each other's backing vocals, a unity emerged. The audience was watching two people who had found each other in the tumultuous world of music and used their spouse to magnify the truth inherent in their songs...
...hippie commune. People here shop at the Gap, for Christ's sake," objects Weddington to suggestions that most Co-opers are very leftist. The Gap? But what about the big poster on the wall protesting Gap sweatshop use? At the top of one flight of stairs is a mural, known as the "Tribute to Karl Marx." Surrounding a photo of the socialist and a rising red Communist star, the words "Workers of the World Unite" are written in a plethora of languages. The dining room is decorated with half a dozen Communist posters in vivid reds and oranges. "Not everyone...