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...intrepid photojournalist and five-time Capa medal winner whose book Inferno chronicles suffering from a sometimes uncomfortably close perspective. Nachtwey, whose photographs have appeared in Time magazine and in a previous collection, 1989's Deeds of War, chooses as his subjects the spoils of war, genocide and social stigma. He is an "anti-war photographer,'' says the writer Luc Sante in Inferno's brief introduction; his photographs record the horror of war rather than the valor...
...campaign told of rich people walking away from their debts, courtesy of bankruptcy court. It told of responsible families who paid their bills being forced to pick up the costs of more affluent Americans and others who were bilking the system. And it warned that bankruptcy had lost its "stigma...
...card companies): "In 1997 Americans filed an all-time record of 1.33 million consumer-bankruptcy petitions, which erased an estimated $40 billion in consumer debt. Those losses are passed on to [other] consumers, resulting in a hidden tax for every American household. The only reasonable explanation is that the stigma of bankruptcy is all but dead. It is simply too easy to file...
...What [the Seneca] is doing is wonderful, but the final clubs have such a stigma," says Kamil E. Redmond '00, a key organizer of the Women's Guide and former vice president of the Undergraduate Council. "If you associate quite heavily with the final clubs, for some, that calls your activities into question...
...Still, the rise of the MP3 format seems to have inspired a move towards a mix-and-match approach to music, which means compilations and DJ mix albums are probably going to be increasingly popular in the U.S. and will lose the K-Tel cheap-and-awful stigma. For instance, Essential Selections, one of the major British DJ mix labels, announced that they're starting to release mix albums in the U.S. My question is, how come American compilations ("Total Hits '99," etc.) are designed to look so much uglier than their glitzy British equivalents, even if the quality...