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...accident and bed-bound a week later. But Charlene's exam seemed too much an act, her vocabulary was laced with too much plaintiffese and she showed far too much interest in the notes that the nurses, the secretaries and I were making about her. She leaned over to peer at my chart, gave me time to write and volunteered many more symptoms and disabilities, adding frequently that she had never had these problems until the accident (although she had taken plenty of narcotics "for other things"). As I dutifully recorded, in walked Vicki, the nurse who had just helped...
...public petitions are, if anything, far more open to abuse than secret ballots. These cards are solicited by union organizers and signed in a face-to-face process that inherently involves intimidation and peer-pressure. If a half-dozen co-workers show up at your door (these cards can be signed anywhere) asking you to sign a pro-union petition, it’s hard to say no. Not only could union bosses watch as workers vote on unionization, they could also “explain” (read: misrepresent) workers’ rights and even control the actual cards...
What might those things be? Take the case Benkler makes in his 2006 book, The Wealth of Networks (available, free, at www.benkler.org) for the economic benefits of "peer production" of software and other information products--from journalism to scientific research to videos of people mixing Mentos and Diet Coke. Peer production by people who donate small or large quantities of their time and expertise isn't necessarily great at generating the original and the unique, but it's very good for improving existing products (like software) and bringing together dispersed information (Wikipedia). Often better, in Benkler's telling, than corporations...
...BCBG Max Azria show. No more small venues: this is the big top, reserved for the most prominent designers. Vast, shadowy, and crammed with people, the atmosphere in “The Tent” resembles that of a circus or Roman Colosseum lion show. Spectators peer down at the extra-long runway. The photographers at the head of the show are so crowded that their faces are entirely hidden behind a wall of camera lenses. We have been looking forward to seeing BCBG, which has probably outfitted every Harvard girl for at least one homecoming, prom, or formal. This...
...show, you get to hear incredible C-list conversations. Examples: “Wow! I fucking loved those sack dresses! Brilliant!” “I’m just so glad to give back to causes such as heart disease!”You then peer across the room, desperately searching for Britney Spears, who you do not find. This is OK. In many ways, New York Fashion Week, eclipsed by its more famous cousins of Paris and Milan, is the C-list of fashion weeks.It is appropriate that you can never see the truly famous. They...