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...bottom line is that the National Lampoon made a whole heap of money," Lewis said...
Even the slightly scaled-down tax cut that passed the Senate last week delivers outsize benefits to people at the top of the economic heap to the detriment of those at the bottom, who may see their safety net fray as a consequence. No one quite knew how bad the spending cuts would be because Bush withheld the nasty details until he got his vote on taxes...
...that prosaic definition masks the discomfort still felt by a minority that had been branded an untouchable class during Japan's samurai era of the 17th century. In those days, the burakumin were social outcasts: the butchers, tanners and waste-handlers who fell to the bottom of the heap in a five-tier caste system. The archaic social structure went the way of the shoguns during Japan's Meiji transformation in the late 19th century. Yet the burakumin still exist on the fringes of this mostly homogenous society, and fight the age-old battles of discrimination. "It's still...
...Fearing similar fates for their animals, scores of bear owners in the New Delhi area are scrupulously avoiding the crowds they used to entertain. Raju and Sheru spend most of their days lying in a dusty, shaggy heap tied to a post outside their owner's home. Every so often, a child is sent out to pour water on them to help with the heat. "These bears are very expensive to keep and now, instead of earning for us, they have become a burden," complains Abdul, a bear trainer...
...some ways, this is a moment like the first decades of the 20th century, when biplanes, automobiles and skyscrapers looked like portents of a magnificent new world in the making. The essential task for many artists then was to align themselves with the dynamic forces of that world, to heap up raptures to horsepower and the Brooklyn Bridge. Cyberspace and digital technology have some of the same glamour and promise, but the romance of technology has long since wilted. After two world wars and Three Mile Island, who can take seriously the militant modernity of the Italian Futurists...