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...does not require the day-labor centers to check the legal status of workers. It allows employers to hire them without informing federal and state agencies if the workers perform casual, nonrecurrent jobs like babysitting or gardening on the employer's property or if they have a special skill like carpentry and can work without supervision. In those cases, the day-labor centers can legitimately--if not very plausibly--argue that the workers were legals. The practice plays cute with the law, to be sure, but since people get paid and work gets done, just about everyone involved with...
...declined after the reigns of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong. Their weaker successors were humbled by European powers and never matched the splendor and sophistication their forebears deployed in marrying art with empire building. The three, shrewd emperors knew exactly how to make power politics look good. It's a skill that the resurgent China of today may yet acquire...
When West Texas got played out, Van Dyke took that dealmaking skill to the Gulf of Mexico. His finds were modest but rich enough to allow him to play the role of Texas oilman to the hilt. In 1969, when a man might pay $25,000 for a nice house in a decent neighborhood, Van Dyke spent $1 million for a house that he later embellished with a 1-acre man-made "lake...
...down hearing KPWUDA KPWUDA every time and seeing just pink.” Despite the brutality of this scene, there is a certain lyrical component to the narration, which makes the reading even more devastating. The association with Agu also extends to protective feelings, which makes his skill at killing-to-not-be-killed morally ambiguous. Building the narrative voice and characters, Iweala says, was challenging. “The characters are not real,” he explains; “they are character types that I found in research, and composites of different people...
While he knows that they have the skill necessary to be a formidable force in a few years, the usual concerns about whether they’ll acquire the intangibles—like the mental toughness necessary to compete and thrive in the grueling Ivy schedule—cause the veteran coach to take pause...