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Stein had come to Harvard from Miami, where he really didn’t know anyone involved in film. Accordingly, he thought a future in film was likely just a “pie in the sky dream...
...Still, the IIT boosters are aware of the challenges of globalization and those it leaves behind. Immelt said India's success will be defined by its ability "to make the pie bigger." Hillary Clinton, who spoke by satellite to the crowd (a decision that left many at the conference wondering whether she was trying to distance herself from India), asked these engineers, scientists and business people to use their skills to create "a shared prosperity for America and India." IIT graduates helped build the technology that made globalization possible. Perhaps they'll also be the ones who make it work...
...then there's YouTube. Last month Trippi made an embarrassingly awkward video with fellow Edwards adviser Jonathan Prince, in which the two attempted to make the candidate's favorite pecan pie. They offered to share the recipe (courtesy of Edwards' mother) in return for a minimum donation of $6.10; the appeal brought in nearly $300,000 in a week, Trippi says. All it cost was the $20 or so it took to buy the pie ingredients, which made it a highly efficient way to raise money. By comparison, Trippi says, a direct-mail solicitation can easily run into hundreds...
...perpetual-motion machine. Eventually China, like every other country in the world, will hit an economic rough patch-and for China it will be exceptionally rough. Chinese society today is a moral and spiritual vacuum. People care only about making money, not for one another. If the economic pie grows smaller, people will fight one another ferociously for a piece of it. Things could get brutal, and we will feel the fallout in Hong Kong, too. Elsewhere, NGOs and religious organizations help out during hard times. But, in China, the Communist Party has gutted those civil institutions-the churches, temples...
Eating out has become as American as apple pie, but for those manning the kitchen, restaurant work is anything but an American dream. Dishwashers, waiters and delivery people are increasingly served up unfair pay, discrimination and dangerous working conditions...