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...cases, corrupt government oversight has often produced a race to the bottom among businesses. Competition based on cost, in which manufacturers eke out slim profits by underpricing rivals, is by far the dominant industrial strategy. China, in short, is where the U.S. was in the early 20th century when Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle, his seminal work about the horrifying conditions in the meatpacking industry...
...corruption. "We're not looked at the same way we might have been years ago," says Dick Simpson, a former Chicago alderman and chair of the political science department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "We're not Al Capone's city. We're not the stockyards of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle." These days Chicago is known for blending working-class kitsch - Da Bears and the Cubbies - with cosmopolitan shopping and restaurants on Michigan Avenue. Its graceful mix of cutting-edge, environmentally conscious modern architecture and classic parks and buildings has actually given it a reputation...
Lela Klein is a third year student at Harvard Law School and political chair of Lambda. Lee Strock, also a third year law student, is the co-president of Lambda and the chair of the Harvard Queer Student Leadership Network. The authors would like to thank Geoffrey C. Upton, J.D. ’03, whose history of Lambda informed this piece. His piece is available at http://hlslambda.org/about/history/
...century ago, Upton Sinclair was appalled by the stockyards and slaughterhouses of Chicago. His novel, The Jungle, drew the attention of President Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880. and led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act of 1906, mandating federal inspections of slaughterhouses. In 1958, this law formed the basis for the Humane Slaughter Act—a law with popular support so strong that President Dwight Eisenhower remarked, “if I went by mail, I’d think no one was interested in anything but humane slaughter...
...which spoofs on 'Harry Potter' and clearly started as an inside joke, but now has been reviewed by the New York Times and is watched by hundreds of thousands of people. That's better than some independent movies." Or Wilkinson's choice for the current famo champion: Lauren Caitlin Upton, better known as Miss Teen South Carolina, the Miss Teen USA contestant whose flubbed response to a questions during the pageant has become one of the most watched videos in the history of the Internet...