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...Janeiro, where 700 favelas, or officially designated slums, spread across the hillsides and seem ready to mud-slide down and swallow up the Sheraton hotel and the condo blocks beneath them. According to one Brazilian friend, 400,000 people arrive at the city's bus station every year, seeking a new life, only to find that all the jobs and houses?and lives?have been taken up by others like themselves. They can survive only by joining the underworld, and a child is seen as irresponsible if he goes to school when he could be supporting his parents by running...
...year-old woman was assaulted just before midnight last Wednesday on Hillside Avenue in Mission Hill, according to the BPD. In a similar incident, a 23-year-old woman was attacked near the Forest Hills Orange Line station in Jamaica Plain around 9:45 p.m. on Sept...
...Boston University (BU), campus police officers spoke to the radio station, provided information to the student newspaper about the attacks and sent a notice to the Dean of Students’ office, according to BU spokesman Colin Riley...
...Romania, they were told. "It was like evangelizing," recalls Jousset, 34, a former marketing manager at cosmetics firm L'Oréal. But the two men persevered, and today their outsourcing company, Webhelp, is booming. Clients include Tiscali, the Italian Internet service provider, and TF1, France's leading TV station. In June, Webhelp opened its second call center in Rabat, bringing its total workforce to 800, and last week the company announced that its sales were on track to double this year, to j12 million. But the French government is starting to fight back. It's considering a decree that...
...shown that people tend to watch news from media outlets which share their own opinions. That means it’s in the interest of media companies to stray from absolute neutrality. Slant the news a little, and you’ve instantly differentiated your newspaper or TV station from the competition. Add headlines more sensationalized and jingoistic than your competitors, and you’ve instantly beaten them. Wooden information-deliverers like Carol Marin don’t stand a chance against the boisterous Bill O’Reilly and the seductive Paula Zahn. The media are a business...