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...more than $20,000 a year. The rebels conspire behind brocade curtains in air-conditioned homes and offices. Wrote Time's Reporter Sam Halper after sitting in on one such meeting last week: "Silent servants opened the doors, poured the drinks and arranged the foam-cushioned armchairs in a neat plotters' circle. The only proletarians were the help." The conservatives at the top fear that the longer they stay behind their desks while Castro is in the hills getting headlines, the smaller their influence on him will be. Recently he summoned five of the Havana brains to the hills...
...first step is the design. Rapp recommends that menus be laid out in neat columns with unfussy fonts. The way prices are listed is very important. "This is the No. 1 thing that most restaurants get wrong," he explains. "If all the prices are aligned on the right, then I can look down the list and order the cheapest thing." It's better to have the digits and dollar signs discreetly tagged on at the end of each food description. That way, the customer's appetite for honey-glazed pork will be whetted before he sees its cost...
...simple truth, as Emerson said, that ‘the only way to have a friend is to be one.’” The values of human equality and dignity that bind us to the rest of the world cannot be taught or presented in neat packages but must be learned individually from experience, curiosity, and struggle. Sure, that neo-hippie experiment of a high school I attended has gotten to my head, but I like this idea of global citizenship more than the stiff formulations of corporate globalization (even if I do have something...
...want to hear more bad things about men, aren’t they assholes, aren’t we great,’” Faludi says. “I think a lot of it had to do with not wanting to give up the nice, neat black-and-white enemy.”‘MIDWIFED BY THE MEDIA’While a journalist herself, Faludi has been critical of the media’s influence.“I think a lot of journalism these days is not about challenging power, it is about confirming...
...spans the Thames. Norman Foster, the bridge's architect, plans to lead the way. PETER ACKROYD'S THAMES On the same bridge - the first to be built in London in more than 100 years - bone up on the history of the river and the city it slices at a neat little exhibition put together by London biographer Peter Ackroyd. Its layout mirrors the capital's: displays on the bridge's east side map the dark, grimy, industrial face; cross to the west side for the regal and religious. TALKS Head to Southwark Cathedral for the "sermon" by Renzo Piano...