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...course of applying for a series of jobs: as a cleaning person, a supermarket clerk and as an "associate" at various big-box stores. No, I hadn't given up on writing; I was doing research for a book on the low-wage life. I was expecting to toil and sweat, even wear unflattering uniforms. But I wasn't expecting to have to share my innermost thoughts...
Airbus isn't blinking. The workers at the Clement Ader plant in Toulouse toil away to the scream of rock-guitar music while tourists observe their labors from a metallic catwalk. Across from the plant, on the other side of a runway, a site has been cleared for the colossal building that will house the A380s. The engineers will probably bike in the hangar--an aerospace version of the Tour de France. And like the tour's cyclists, they know better than to discount the American competitor...
Charity is not alone in her enthusiasm for her creative thesis and the imaginative toil and academic intensity it inspired. Jerome L. Martin ’01, who is also a Crimson editor, wrote a collection of 39 poems for his thesis, and says that one of the highlights of his experience was the opportunity to work with Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Jorie Graham...
...Warmonger The worst of the stereotypes, war-monger Japan - the country that invaded its neighbors, massacred local populations, forced men to toil in munitions factories and women to work as sex slaves for its soldiers - is still palpably alive in no small part because Japan has done such a poor job exorcising the old demons. The apologies came too late and are too feeble. Japan didn't acknowledge it forced Korean, Taiwanese and Filipino women into sex slavery until 1993. Its courts are only now hearing cases of indentured workers from Korea and China, who stand little chance of winning...
...Jones took the romanticized slave-labor scenes from Confederate currency and reproduced them in oil paintings paired with the bills. The effect is to punctuate the exploitation of blacks for profit. One scene depicts a sun-lit goddess of good fortune in repose, counting her gold as slaves toil in the fields behind...