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...however, until I discovered the joys of bureaucratic control myself—that summer I worked in a Parisian office that found shelter, food, and jobs for the city’s homeless. With all of our clients in precarious situations, it felt good locating someone a place to sleep for the night or printing out someone’s very first resume...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Commuter in Paris | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

...asleep, I thought I was dreaming, so I went back to sleep," she said...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles and Abby D. Phillip, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Fire at Bartleys Shuts Down Famed Burger Joint, Hong Kong | 9/20/2008 | See Source »

...golden standard for progress," says Jamie Drummond, executive director of the antipoverty organization DATA. When world leaders gather in New York City this month to take stock of the MDGS, their speeches are likely to tout the many achievements since 2000: millions more African children now attend school and sleep under mosquito nets; thousands of new water wells have been dug. Yet though maternal health care underpins many other development goals (healthy mothers are more likely to ensure that their children are well fed and educated), the total number of women dying in childbirth has remained virtually unchanged in eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death in Birth | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...North America of the near-future (dates have been replaced by sponsor names, such as the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar) is being decimated by a videotape so entertaining that people watch it on a loop, mesmerized until they die of dehydration or starvation or lack of sleep. Reading it, you realize how soul-sad lonely you are. And Wallace creates that effect, like Pynchon, while being laugh-out-loud funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: David Foster Wallace 1962-2008 | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

...plan worked for Great Britain and it could work for us, once we got over the incredible initial intrusion. My point is this: if America were really America today, I wouldn’t have received that speeding ticket. If, state of New Hampshire Police Department, you can all sleep soundly knowing that you took Felipe’s money for a week on some trumped-up charge, all while your license plates proclaim their libertarian ethos, then do so happily. But the Old Man of the Mountain is gone, and nothing’s going to bring it back...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: Against Speed Traps | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

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