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...odds, some argued, with The Crimson’s endorsement this past spring of Harvard’s living wage campaign’s platform of a wage floor of $10.25 per hour for all Harvard employees. The Crimson typesetting was expected to employ 20 Cambodian typisis working two six-hour shifts a day on 10 computers for six months. The typists earn $50 a month, better than the $45 minimum wage paid in the garment sector, Cambodia’s biggest industry...
...everyone in this world has a lover except me," sings a woman. "Why is it so?" Her lament, in Persian, throbs over the speakers of a cab heading for Kabul, Afghanistan. An hour into the six-hour journey from neighboring Pakistan, the taxi driver abruptly switches cassettes, and chants of Koranic verse replace the pop song. Moments later, the car stops at a checkpoint. The wooden poles of the barrier are entwined with strips of confiscated audiotape and film, the loose ends flapping in the wind. A guard peers into the car and inspects the four passengers and driver before...
...incentive system for these classes could resemble those for driving courses. Every few years, I take a six-hour driving course to save a few hundred dollars on my driving insurance. Twenty others and I take a day to talk about car maintenance, as well as current road conditions and construction in the region. Admittedly, if the course didn’t come with an insurance incentive, I wouldn’t take it, because I’m not too concerned with the ways of anti-lock brakes...
...Digital Data Divide’s workers are paid $2.40 for a six-hour day. The poverty line in Cambodia is less than fifty cents per capita per day in Phnom Penh, according to the World Bank. The company employs up to a dozen workers on two six hour shifts, for a total of 30 hours a week, compared to the standard 12 hour shifts common in Phnom Penh’s factories...
...recent six-hour video project for PBS, Ma collaborated with artists from various disciplines to present Bach’s “Suites for Unaccompanied Cello.” Choreographer Mark Morris, Olympic figure skaters Torvill and Dean, filmmaker Atom Egoyan, a Kabuki actor and a landscape designer worked with Ma on different suites to create what The Washington Post called an “18th-century music video...