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...jobs is to dream up virtual fashions and accessories for avatars, cartoon characters that stand in for a user online. When you use Freechal, you can outfit your avatar in a range of styles: punk rocker, gangster, curvy superhero. To do so, though, you have to pay real-world cash. Says Ryou: "Romantic is going to be big this spring...
Insiders are worried that the bureau has become dangerously short of grizzled, crisis-hardened supervisors. "With the sensitive and complex investigations we do, whether you're dealing with counterintelligence or corruption or counterterrorism, you need real-world experience," says a respected veteran. But Mueller wants a fresh approach at the top and has ignored the committees that traditionally recommend promotions--and, critics say, perpetuate the old-boy network. Mueller has also shocked the troops by personally interviewing candidates for all upper-management and some key middle-management posts. Mueller loyalists say the ex-Marine handpicks young leaders whose passion...
...Anatomy of Racial Inequality is based upon a series of talks Loury gave at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute in 2000. The book’s palpable reluctance to discuss issues in terms of their real-world connotations speaks to Loury’s personal experience of the messy debate on racial inequality in America. His confidence often seems to falter when he talks about “hot” topics. On the issue of affirmative action, for example, he couches his debate in a theoretical “thought experiment” (a real-world...
Born in Brooklyn in 1938, Nozick studied analytic philosophy as an undergraduate at Columbia University. Later at Princeton he pursued graduate work in analytic philosophy, a field that tries to understand the relation between linguistic statements and the real-world subjects they define...
...examples from a social-trend story about our world after Sept. 11 but the subjects of some of the most popular entertainments created before. The same social changes we are seeing in real life--reconnecting with family, regaining respect for institutions and community, fleeing the rat race--were already rampant in books, in movies and especially on TV, to an extent that suggests the real-world longing for change may be deep-seated enough to last. When it comes to changed priorities and renewed purpose, popular culture has been there, done that and bought the bowling alley...