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...Despite such experiments, Japanese companies may find it hard to restore the glory days of Japan Inc. That's because today, one in three Japanese works part-time; younger employees in particular tend to value mobility over the security of lifetime employment. Indeed, during Noboru Koyama's Saturday-night drinking session, employee Eri Shimoda confides that his co-workers "feel like family." Yet most of those who attended the party also say that, warm and fuzzy sentiment aside, they plan to leave the cleaning company within a few years. "Work is just work," says one of them. No amount...
...from Guariniello. So Agovino ordered 20 Carabinieri agents, including two linked to a special Health Ministry squad, to carry out a rapid-fire sweep of five residences where Austrians were staying in Pragelato Plan and Cesana San Sicario, the two hamlets hosting the cross-country and biathlon events. The Saturday-night raid was a first-ever antidoping police blitz at an Olympics, and the i.o.c. came along. So while the police scoured the houses and the athletes for any evidence of doping substances or equipment, Olympic officials demanded that 10 Austrian athletes give urine samples. It was well after midnight...
...Saturday-night shuttle riders usually can’t wait to get off the crowded bus. But one “unwanted guest” just couldn’t let go. Police attempted to persuade the lingerer, who was itching to get somewhere the shuttle would not go, to dismount. Police asked him to hitch a ride in their cop car. The rider declined...
...necessity of personal academic achievement, and forward, towards the prosperous futures ensured by that achievement. Consequently, Harvard ceases to function as a socially interactive organism and fragments into individuals and groups of students united by similar ambitions. The immediate moment, these few years of youth, recede into the background. Saturday-night parties and University policy become matters of relative indifference, for better or for worse.This is by no means an invective against Harvard, but an explanatory response to its critics. The solution to these complaints is simple, though hardly easy. As a student body, we must collectively change our attitude...
...temporarily displaced Minnesotan, Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion is more than a Saturday-night entertainment. It is a two-hour break from the congestion, the frenetic consumerism and the looniness of California, a sort of "Radio Free Minnesota." Steve Anderson San Francisco...