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Some see imagination; others see ego. Either way, Andrew Stern's vision for a more aggressive labor movement persuaded his union, the Teamsters and the United Food and Commercial Workers, together representing 4.6 million workers, to split from the AFL-CIO. TIME's Joseph R. Szczesny asks the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) chief to explain the bitter divorce...
...Gore insists that Current TV has, if anything, become more open. "Our vision was then, and is now, to go from the old studio-based production model that is still used by everybody else out there, where a small group of people in a television studio makes the programming that everybody else watches, and go to a democratized medium where everybody has a chance to learn how to make television," he says. The network will even teach people how, with free online media training by veteran journalists, educators from journalism and film schools, and celebrities...
...creative life, where the memory of their homeland would become grist for their art. In many ways, these souls are still in transit. The rhymes of Bill Urale, the Auckland rap star also known as King Kapisi, echo out across the Pacific: "You are immersed in a vision cultivated by this Samoan / Strong is my brethren Samoa mo Samoa?" And as a filmmaker, his sister Sima projects an image of her homeland just as fixed and fervent. "You can never lose that bond," she says...
...best film of each decade since Time began. Metropolis 1927; Fritz Lang Lang's epic poem of urban dystopia and class warfare set the standard for imagining the future - and how it might feel to be a part of it. Even now, in the age of cgi, his dark vision remains unsurpassed. Dodsworth 1936; William Wyler A tycoon goes to europe and eventually sheds glum responsibility (and a ditsy wife) in Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments...
...University’s latest vision statement for Allston, dating from early June, places the construction of two 500,000-square-foot science complexes as one of its first priorities for the planned campus across the Charles. University President Lawrence H. Summers has said he “would not be surprised” if science labs were among the first buildings completed there...