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...dark, nursing an inferiority complex or a grudge. "What comics are going through is like a civil rights movement," says Spiegelman. "This museum show will help." Like Hitchcock thrillers and rock 'n' roll, comics are obeying the tidal pull of pop culture. What was once forbidden is now mainstream; what was once junk is now classic...
...brought to the fore a pragmatic indigenous leadership, which in turn has inspired a broader range of people and institutions - from banks to think tanks - to support Aboriginal initiatives. Leaders, such as Noel Pearson from Cape York, now speak of ownership, responsibility and individuality; urging indigenous people to be mainstream, mobile, acquisitive and ambitious, and to reject the so-called "sit-down money" of welfare. The Moree jobs model, with its ethos of pride, self-reliance and social mobility, fits the new thinking, and is now on the move. In the past few years, the AES has opened offices...
...there's a prevailing movement that Estens and a gaggle of bureaucrats can't reverse: Australia's booming economy is not generating enough unskilled work, particularly for men. According to Bob Gregory, professor of economics at the ANU, it's getting harder - not easier - for Aboriginal people to gain mainstream employment (that is, outside the burgeoning indigenous work-for-the-dole scheme). Despite massive spending on job training programs, the results have been "extraordinarily poor," argues Gregory, who estimates each full-time job from one intensive assistance program has cost taxpayers $A75,000. Without a change in economy-wide forces...
Fielding applicants from low-income backgrounds is only the first marketing hurdle Harvard needs to overcome. After mailing acceptance letters, Byerly must convince students from outside Harvard’s upper-middle-class mainstream that there’s a place for them in Cambridge. That’s no easy task for a college widely considered a chilly bastion of the Northeast elite...
...that included their most recent hit, “The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine.” Following this loveable drag-jangle with “The Way We Get By,” the song that single-handedly put Spoon, at least temporarily, on the mainstream radar screen (with an article in Time magazine), and pounding out “Sister Jack” right after that constituted the best one-two knockout the band had to offer and whipped the fans up as close to a frenzy as they could get without spilling their over-sized Budweisers...