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...satisfy their creative yearnings but kept from doing so by a variety of factors. Besides the stinging poverty that has translated into few programming gigs, political instability and the wrong kind of computer training have kept the country from following India as a beneficiary of low-cost Internet spin-off jobs, either in software or services like call centers or technical support help desks. Some 350,000 students are enrolled in computer colleges across the Philippines, but there are far fewer jobs to match their skills...
...more. "I'm a freeta," Hattori explains. That's a new word, referring to people who float from job to job, dabbling in one dead-end, low-skill position after another. It's putting a nice spin on what used to be called loser. That's O.K. with Hattori. It's even cool. Hattori graduated a year ago?March 2000?from Yokohama National University, a prestigious public school. "I never really looked seriously for a job," he says. His parents, both government bureaucrats, pay his rent. "I'm optimistic about my future," he says. "It isn't like...
...postmodern spin on the traditional sword-and-sandal epic, Russell Crowe stars as Roger Clemens, a Yankee pitcher who has completely lost his mind. He now believes that he is Rogerius Clemensius, heir to the Roman throne, and has been cheated out of succession by Mets catcher Mike Piazza. Armed with nothing but a 98 m.p.h. fastball and a fragment of a broken bat, he vows to exact revenge. Both drama and hilarity ensue...
...great shame that we have no rhetoric requirement, for we are afflicted with nonsense all the time," says Gomes. "Rhetoric helps determine the difference between spin and substance and rhetorical truth from nonsense...
...company was conceived as a wholesale business, but the cooking aroma led passersby to clamor for the doughnuts, a demand met by cutting a window through a wall to handle retail. An ugly conglomerate, Beatrice Foods, bought Krispy Kreme in 1976 only to spin it off to franchisees in a 1982 leveraged buyout. Today the family of Joseph McAleer Sr., who led the LBO, holds roughly 25% of the shares...