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...take it upon themselves to challenge the status quo. How productive is it, they ask, to stubbornly ensure that every minority—visible or otherwise—has an insular campus organization all its own, safely cordoned off from the rest of the student body? A brief campus-wide comic opera ensues, as the officers of the maligned cultural groups write angry letters expressing their collective disappointment at their peers’ lack of sensitivity. The matter is hotly debated on email lists for a few days, until the dozen or so people with the time and energy...
...After Dark, 2004 In this novella, Murakami's most recent book, the author drops the cool, first-person narrator of his previous work for a wide-angle look at a single night in Tokyo's neon-lit Shinjuku district
...spring retreats and annual visits to the company founder's ancestral grave. "We realized that workplace communication was becoming nonexistent," explains human-resources manager Shinji Matsuyama, whose company, Alps Electric, spent several million dollars last year to bring together about 3,000 workers for its first company-wide undokai, or mini-Olympics, in 14 years. According to Matsuyama, the shared experience of playing dodge ball and skipping rope "helped unite people under a common goal...
...struggles to find a quorum for deliberations. Repeated attempts by TIME to get attendance figures from the office of the Speaker have been rebuffed with the claim that such data is too "politically sensitive" to be published. But Iraqis don't need statistics: they can tell from the wide swaths of empty seats clearly visible in the live broadcasts on state...
...Children, on the 18 1/2 hour flight from Los Angeles to Singapore, become the very opposite of a breath of fresh air. Home becomes the place you hardly recognize (while that foreign airport comes to seem very much like home). Night becomes the time when you're wide awake. During my two days in California, I try to avoid jet lag by getting up at noon and doing most of my work while everyone else is sleeping...