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...with MLB. “There’s still some sense of wholesomeness and familiness to the game…It’s a company to be proud of.” Outside of personal satisfaction, employees found that, in fact, their experience had provided a useful platform for a career in any industry.“If you’re being interviewed, there’s a distinct possibility that people are going to be extremely interested in what you did,” Puopolo said. “You’ll have some interesting...
...Hatoyama knows this mandate is provisional. In modern times the Japanese have been wary of radical change, and it's unclear to what extent the DPJ's ambitious platform can be implemented by a party criticized for its lack of unity and common ideology, not to mention experience: 46% of the incoming crop of DPJ members are first-time parliamentarians. But public impatience with politics as usual has boiled over; the DPJ's novices would be well advised to follow Hatoyama's lead and start hustling. Below, we've pinpointed five areas on which the new ruling party should focus...
...word immigration doesn't appear in the DPJ's platform - the subject remains a touchy one for insular Japan. But the party has a plan to allow more foreign workers into the country to help offset the shrinking labor pool. DPJ lawmakers also want to improve the lives of younger Japanese workers by curbing the hiring of temporary workers by manufacturers, a widespread practice that over the last decade or so has relegated many youth to second-class-citizen status. While older workers hang on to the best jobs, younger workers stuck in temp positions are denied many company...
...their first American tour. He played bass. On drums was Leo Sacks, a Grammy-nominated music producer of vintage R&B who is making a documentary on the New Orleans gospel icon Raymond Myles. TIME writer Gilbert Cruz, the only participant who knew his way around the Rock Band platform, took lead guitar. The vocals were shared by TIME Arts editor Radhika Jones, whose father Robert was a folksinger in the '60s and whose mom once dined with George Harrison, and yours truly, who saw the Beatles perform at Philadelphia's Convention Hall in 1964 and for months afterward affected...
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