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...Live to Work and What We Can Do About It" (Free Press; September 5). "Paid work is increasingly where we get our emotional needs met and is surpassing neighborhood, community, and even family life, as the source of feeling alive and connected to others." But, says Philipson, this hyper-investment can have disastrous consequences. "When all of one's life revolves around work, an insult or betrayal by a supervisor or coworker can be emotionally searing. If one feels ostracized from a workplace that has been the center of one's life, then friendships, community, personal identity, and even...
...outside the law might be like. Often, it has been the figure of the pimp - the image, the persona, but not always the reality - upon which we project these fantasies. The pimp mentality and approach to life is (an) all too frightening reflection of our intensely materialistic, highly sexed, hyper-capitalist society. Sometimes, a closer look at our political and business leaders, our pop culture icons, our historical heroes, proves that 'pimping' is more often than we are willing to admit, as American as apple pie." Well, maybe...
There haven’t been many movies like The Rookie recently. In today’s hyper-niche-driven movie market, it is risky for a movie to put its faith in broad audience appeal. Rated G, this movie works beautifully for children, for their parents and for anyone else up for a gentle night of cinema. But if the film is aimed at no group in particular, there’s the chance that it might miss them...
...longer carry their old weight. The relationship with Germany is not what it was, with a growing understanding between London and Berlin. The enlargement of the E.U. threatens to reduce France's political clout and cut its big farm subsidies. Further afield, the Foreign Minister gets upset about the "hyper power" of the United States but has little to offer as a realistic alternative. Attempts at Middle East mediation have come to nothing. West Africa, where Paris continued to play a neo-colonialist role after the end of empire, is a mess...
...cutting section sizes, the law faculty wasn’t only interested in improving the school’s academic environment, but also hoped to improve the school’s social atmosphere—eliminating the school’s reputation for a backbiting hyper-competitive culture...