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...brings you a night of stand-up comedy to benefit the victims of the South Asian earthquake. Comics scheduled to perform include Lisa Lampanelli, Kevin Brennan, Mitch Fatel, Modi, Judah Friedlander, Todd Barry, and Azhar Usman. Sanders Theatre. 8 p.m. $25 general admission, $10 students. (CNC)X with Juliana Hatfield. Started in 1977, this punk band is one of the most important influences on the alternative rock scene. Avalon. 7 p.m. Tickets available through Ticketmaster. $20. (JDMC)Cage. German-born, Middletown, NY-raised rapper Cage will promote his new Def Jux release “Hell’s Winter?...
...West Virginia near the Kentucky border would not, at first glance, suspect that a combat zone was at hand. Yet for more than a century, bloody civil strife has roiled the region embraced by Mingo County, W. Va., and Pike County, Ky. There in the late 1800s, the Hatfield and McCoy families began a feud so lethal and long that it became legend. Then in 1920 the early struggles of the region's coal miners to unionize exploded into a fray that left nine people dead and is still remembered as "the Matewan massacre." Now the area around the same...
...Hatfield sounds defensive, it's understandable. Wal-Mart's passion for buying in China makes it an easy target back in the U.S. "Wal-Mart is both a beneficiary and a driver of the race to the bottom in the global economy," says Alejandra Domenzain, an associate director of Sweatshop Watch, a U.S. advocacy group. "It has enormous leverage, and how it uses that leverage in the pursuit of ever cheaper labor has enormous consequences for communities in the United States." But that may be less true now than it was 20 years ago. The production of most...
...Tang visits a factory, he sticks a cardboard placard on the table announcing the company's policy: no gifts, no kickbacks. He won't even sit for the traditional Chinese banquet. Some "officials are pretty moved when they see that because they're used to a different way," says Hatfield...
That real world is what brings low prices to Wal-Mart's U.S. customers and, increasingly, to its customers in China too. Joe Hatfield's new stores are thriving, in part because Wal-Mart is spreading a management style that many of its young Chinese employees find liberating. In most Chinese companies, managers typically share little information with employees, and promotions usually depend on whom you know. At the Sam's Club outside Beijing, it's different. Alan Li, 31, the store's deputy manager, encourages workers to contribute ideas about efficiency, and managers tell employees what's going...