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...white-collar job, a somewhat passive fellow who doesn't expect much out of life and takes what comes with jaded equanimity. Like the narrators of Raymond Carver's stories - Murakami is Carver's translator - they are unremarkable men, less driven by the ethic to succeed and less enmeshed in the powerful webs of family and business and community than most Japanese, living like college students well beyond their college days. In this, I suspect, may lie some of the popular appeal of Murakami's novels for Japanese and Western readers...
...sure, but so is the minimum wage, or cut-offs for tax brackets, etc., etc. Instead of throwing out a number, I’d argue that hard-working families deserve to live out of poverty, and that the children of hard-working families deserve an equal chance to succeed...
...back to the basic paradox of the war on drugs: The more government agencies succeed in choking the supply, the higher the price it fetches and the greater the incentive for producers, traffickers and dealers to take the risk of bringing it to market. Even once the cause of the Peru missionary tragedy is established and steps are taken to prevent a recurrence, the drug war will remain unwinnable until the U.S. appetite for narcotics is suppressed. And that's something no amount of AWACS patrols or special forces training or mandatory minimum prison sentences can achieve...
...behalf are paid less than a living wage, showing a sensitivity to its public image. The more effective living wage supporters become at showing the holes in Harvard’s story and making the true case for a living wage, the better the chance their efforts will succeed...
...going to engage these guys. If I go to war, you want to go to war with me, because I will put the enemy on the bottom and we will come home alive.' That's what gained me their confidence." It was typical Waddle--brash, daring, determined to succeed. He did a series of unorthodox maneuvers with the submarine to confound the carrier group. "They couldn't find us. We ran rings around them...