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...what all of this represents is what I'm trying to create a forum for. This album, Riddim Warfare, for example, There's such a wide variety of people on it. You have Julia Scher who helps run MIT's media department, she has a spoken word piece. Or Mariko Mori who is a really major Japanese artist at the moment. All of these people, the vocalists, I asked them what do they feel like living in the late twentieth-century, media saturation, electronically-accelerated culture, etc etc. And so each person came back at me with all this kind...
...Mariko K. Johnson '99, who is also one of Supinda's roommates, described her as "warm, caring, dedicated, driven and very self-confident...
...Mariko L. Ryono '99 cites flexibility as a positive aspect of the concentration...
...agency used simple phrases to make sure its clients could discriminate at will. If a firm wanted only Japanese workers, for example, it would instruct Interplace to have applicants "talk to Mariko." Other codes blocked blacks, Hispanics, men or women for certain work. The practice is disturbingly widespread. The EEOC is now pursuing actions against employment agencies in other states that use similar codes. Some go so far as to specify "no accents," meaning no minorities of any kind. Companies receiving this special service include Wall Street firms, insurance companies, manufacturers and at least one magazine publisher...
...received some small comfort last week: notes penned by loved ones just moments before the plane went down. "Machiko, take care of the kids," Masakatsu Taniguchi wrote to his wife. From Keiichi Matsumoto, there were three words for his two-year-old son: "Tetsuya, become respectable." Former JAL Employee Mariko Shirai, 26, could only scribble: "Scared, scared, scared, help, feel sick, don't want to die." Kazuo Yoshimura offered his wife the simple encouragement "Hang in there." And from Hirotsugu Kawaguchi, there was a 17-sentence letter to his three children that was alternately wistful, sad, instructive and finally philosophical...