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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...human beings and companies are able to strive for higher goals.) Despite a few New Age-y concepts like "karmic capitalism" and a tendency to throw around phrases like "self-actualization," which will prove a little woo-woo for some readers, anyone who has ever been a wage slave will warm to Conley's compassion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: C-E-Know-How | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...found that cooking gave her a boost in confidence. “I realized that I could actually make money by being a pastry chef,” she says. If Pavloff, Chang, and Paur are any indication, perhaps more Harvard students will consider the transition from coffee-slave to sous-chef. Just think of the pheasant...

Author: By Diane J. Choi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hey Ma! When I Grow Up I Want to Go to harvard and Become a Chef! | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

...gaps, the black holes, in the country's official story of itself. In The Nature of Blood, for example, he gave us Othello's story in the Moor's own voice; in Cambridge, he bestowed the name of the august English university on a doomed West Indian slave. His view does not overlook class or other races - in Foreigners he points out that more than 2,000 Jews fought for Britain in World War I, only to be greeted on their return as aliens. Yet where others complain about history, Phillips sets about remaking it, in more inclusive terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black and Blue | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

...confused, as Mitt Romney, dogged by accusations of flip-flopping over abortion, and John Kerry, who ineptly said he had voted for a supplemental funding bill before voting against it, can attest. Yet our nation's leaders often change their minds. If they didn't, we might still be slave-owning British subjects. When and why they do so can be instructive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grand Tradition of Flip-Flopping | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

...wiping the great blot from national life. By his 60s, however, he had heard too many Southerners praising slavery as a good thing. When elected to Congress after losing the White House in 1828, Adams spent the remainder of his life flaying slavery, supporting the mutineers on the slave ship Amistad and the right of citizens to deluge Congress with antislavery petitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grand Tradition of Flip-Flopping | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

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