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...easy to pick up a newspaper and see some comparison between your brothers and Barack Obama. Is there any validity to that comparison? Barack is certainly an extremely gifted and talented individual. But my brothers are on a special plateau for me. They're my heroes...
...locked into a fixed amount of food each week, so if you don't feel like cooking for a couple nights in a row, you feel guilty. A farmer sweated over these beautiful ears of corn, and I'm going to throw them out so I can pick up riblets at Applebee...
...secure - especially compared to the unstable lot of workers in the U.S. - in practice it can feel like a straitjacket. Employees in Japan are often still paid by seniority, not by performance, and switching companies in mid-career can mean career suicide. Part-timers have the potential to pick their jobs, be rewarded for skills rather than seniority and be spared the 90-hour workweeks that drive many salarymen to an early grave. In Haken, Haruko tells her full-time colleagues that "overtime is not in my vocabulary," leaves work precisely at 6 p.m. and in between contracts, flies...
...sort of flagrant and anachronistic behavior from any campus-affiliated organization. We are not so naïve as to suggest that discrimination based on popularity, pedigree, or looks could ever be completely stamped out at college social organizations. Many such organizations across the country, including some at Harvard, pick their members in part based on such criteria. But the vast majority of such organizations stay true to their mission and purpose—to bring students from multifarious socioeconomic backgrounds, possessing diverse life experiences and values, into close and meaningful friendships that would otherwise never have formed. A blinding...
...album’s most intriguing tracks, and the song “The Magic Position” is enjoyable enough if you go into it with the right mindset—that is, no mindset. There are a couple other tracks worth listening to, but expect to pick out a few favorite tracks and delete the rest from your hard drive. “The Magic Position”—the album, that is—casts a strange spell, to be sure, but at the album’s close I was left expecting more. Patrick...