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...University of Massachusetts. He has an advantage over his younger classmates. "Graduate students often have a problem figuring out what they want to do," says Hamm. "I had never lost my interest in the maquiladora industry, and I knew from the beginning what I wanted to study." But the gist of his dissertation has surprised even Hamm. Previous research had created a literature of oppression. Hamm's interviews with factory workers in Juarez presented a different view. "Fairly consistently," says Hamm, "they portray a picture of opportunity and hope, not despair and disillusionment. I don't want to deny...
...gist of the tale is that back in 1972, when Levin started his first job at what was then Time Inc., he worked in the company's cable-television division on 23rd Street in Manhattan. At the time, in those Pleistocene cable days, some genius had the idea of building a real-time TV news service that would allow Time Inc.'s cable subscribers to have direct access to the headlines, as opposed to having to wait for Huntley and Brinkley or Walter Cronkite or even, God forbid, the morning paper. To do this, Time Inc.'s wizards came...