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Daugherty's "Sing Sing: J. Edgar Hoover" and Johnson's "How it Happens" began and ended the program. Both represent modern extensions of a procedure poineered by Steve Reich in the '60s in pieces such as "It's Gonna Rain" and "Come Out" and continued in his "Different Trains," recorded by the quartet in 1989. In these pieces taped speech is subjected to repeated looping (or "phasing," to use Reich's term) and then musically claborated. Daugherty, in the anti-establishment political tradition of Reich's earlier work, samples excerpts from Hoover's speeches and parodies them through his musical...
...Interview with Robert Reich: Nobody is safe...
Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has written extensively on the dilemma of the American worker in a global economy. TIME associate editor Janice Castro recently talked to him about the trend toward a contingent, or temporary, labor force...
...long run, however, this scramble to shed full-time staff may be as harmful to American industry as it is to the American work force -- since a well-trained work force is the greatest asset of a nation's industries. Analysts, including Labor Secretary Reich, have pointed out that in a borderless world, capital and production are portable; thus, the key resources of companies as well as nations are the skills and ideas of its people. The reduction in corporate programs for training and developing employees -- one of the long-term effects of the temping of America -- leads...
...Both Reich and Nye have served in previous Democratic administrations, the former as director of policy planning for the FTC under president Jimmy Carter and assistant to the solicitor general under president Gerald Ford; the latter, as undersecretary of state for security assistance, science, and technology in the Carter administration...