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...true that many who work in the resort and service industries in the developing world owe their livelihoods to western tourists, callers and customers. However, a massive number of people in the areas devastated by last month’s tsunami, live on dollars—or less??a day providing goods and services taken for granted by their users in and from the rich West. It is this group of poorly paid workers, who live in, albeit measured by western standards, abject poverty, that was devastated by the deadly waves of December. From such a perspective...
...mood was particularly jubilant this summer as the staff gathered on the trading floor—next to the vulture, no less??to celebrate another round of stellar returns at the management company’s “Fiscal New Year’s Party,” according to Meyer’s accont. Feasting on tubs of ice cream, they turned to their boss, who as a surprisingly short man for such a financial giant, stood atop a desk to lavish what has become annual praise upon his managers...
More alarming—because it is less recognizable—opinion is covertly slipped into supposedly objective articles throughout the paper. For example, a few days ago—on the obituary page, no less??the Herald ran a news article on Phillip Johnson, the chairman of the Democratic State Committee. The first sentence: “Perhaps taking a cue from the national Democratic post-election struggle for identity, the state party boss yesterday changed his mind after announcing he was resigning as chairman.” If The New York Times ever had the gall...
...Harvard enters the tournament—during a weekend in which the men’s and women’s matches are the only home Crimson events, no less??the team looks to its fans to make the difference...
When the music happens on hard drives, never really existing outside of virtual space, it conflates composition and performance. In hip-hop, the voice is only half the equation if not less??beyond lyricism, freestyles and all that, the musical invention is happening on the level of the sampler and sequencer. You’d think hip-hop would be incredible live, but at this point the music has a hard time straddling its two worlds. Little surprise, then, that the Roots put on the best hip-hop show I’ve ever seen...