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...since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying to keep it as close to slavery as they can without violating the slave laws. When you have a United or a Continental pilot having to walk dogs as a side job [to supplement their salaries], you have admitted on the spot that capitalism doesn't work. What will historians and anthropologists call it? They are not going to call us employees or associates. They are going to call us wage slaves...
...security-service agents hanging out in the lobby and outside the hotel. (Wi-fi, fine dining and down comforters, among other amenities, are not common in Russia outside Moscow and St. Petersburg.) At night, the almighty descended on the bar in the first floor of the Parus for a spot of vodka or black tea. The bartender, who declined to give his name for fear of losing his job, quipped: "They ate, they drank, they did nothing...
...weekly with the Assistant Dean of Student Life, Susan B. Marine, biweekly with Dean of Student Life Suzy M. Nelson, monthly with Dean Smith, bimonthly with Dean Hammonds, and semesterly with University President Drew G. Faust.“[We should] always get face time, always have a regular spot in University Hall, a regular spot on their schedules,” Flores said. “This will keep us from getting filled in after the fact.”Over the summer, the College also appointed Marine as the official College liaison and adviser to the UC. According...
...Harvard football defensive tackle Desmond Bryant ’09 closed out this summer by earning a spot on the Oakland Raiders’ main roster...
...barely veiled contempt for the process from former President George W. Bush's Administration. But China wasn't far behind. The world's biggest country is now its biggest carbon emitter, and its sheer rate of economic expansion - fueled chiefly by polluting coal - ensures China won't lose that spot anytime soon. While the U.S. earned the world's antipathy for refusing to sign on to the Kyoto Protocol, China, as a developing nation, had no requirements under that pact - and rarely seemed interested in stepping up to its responsibilities within the U.N. climate-change process. While the standoff between...