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What we must do is to insist, stubbornly and in spite of the blinkered view from our perch, that on the scales of dignity all labor weighs equal. In doing so, we perform an act of unification by conjoining all citizens, from the philosopher to the policeman to the plumber, into the commonality of humanity’s unfolding history, a history precipitated out of the sum of thousands of craft activities. We assert that Homo sapiens—the wise human—and Homo faber—the making human—are the same item...
...raised in South Africa. “It connects people across years and countries.” Van Vuuren credits the Harvard Gumboots group for enabling him to discover more about his own country’s culture and history. “South Africans—in spite of our tumultuous history—are one of the warmest people. Our culture is very easygoing and accommodating to other people, and you really see that in Gumboots,” Hugo said. “Whenever a new American student showed up, it was about helping them...
...year. "We've been quite surprised." Ng's firm is one of more than 300 ship chandlers in Singapore, some of them still small mom-and-pop outfits. According to Douglas Inch, who runs the secretariat of the Singapore Ship Suppliers Association, most of them are doing well in spite of the downturn in trade. One reason, he says, is because Singapore is so strategically located along maritime trade routes that it's an ideal place to ride out the recession. "If the ships are going to move anywhere they'll move from here," Inch says. (Read "Laid...
...However, too few people seem to realize that we shouldn’t have been sleeping in the first place. The idea that talent correlates with physical appearance is a relic of Chaucerian thinking that has somehow still managed to permeate the culture of American Idolatry in spite of what we preach to our schoolchildren. Without the enduring assumption that a beautiful face precedes an equally attractive voice, we’d never have heard of her—an embarrassing sign that Rudolf’s isn’t so elementary a lesson...
...malnourishment is at the state and local level. Yesterday’s Washington Post reports how widespread layoffs and curtailment of services by state and local governments are accelerating in spite of the $135 billion dollar “stabilization fund” that is being funneled to the states from the stimulus package (a fund cut by more than $40 billion to win the support of the three Republican senators who voted for cloture). The worst is yet to come. The executive director of the National Governors Association has testified that states are facing a $200 billion deficit over...