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...have been among the first to feel the pinch of lost income. "I support what the writers want," says Jim Lapidus, who runs the costume department on the Fox show 24, which sacrificed its entire season to the strike. "I don't support the way they did it. I wish they would have stayed at the table and we all would have stayed working." Lapidus's tone is considerably more measured than that of Thomas Short, the president of the below-the-line workers' union, the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), who likens the WGA leadership...
...wish that you would stop featuring cover stories claiming scientific discoveries of human nature. These questions should be equally explored from the perspective of the humanities. While such scientific research has its uses, reports like this subtly reinforce the idea that science is the best, if not the only, way of knowing. Even your cover picture implied that a question as mysterious as our capacity for good and evil could be answered with the reductionist idea that it's all in our brains. Luke Tia, Gainesville...
...moment - the boomers. We too have our own iconic Christmas movie: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Clark Griswold personifies all of our ideals to the extreme. Every year we confront the hassles of "exterior illumination," the perfect tree, the extravagant and costly family gifts, the visiting relatives who wish they were somewhere else, the big dinner, the disorganized cleanup afterward and the demolished house we are left with. Yet, despite it all, we say to ourselves, "We did it." When we watch the movie every year, we are not laughing at Griswold's foibles - we are laughing at ourselves. Craig...
...unfortunately have rent to pay, and really need to put in the hours at work,” says Woo, who works there eight to ten hours twice a week and part-time three days a week. “I dedicate a good deal of time that I wish I could study to being at work...
...move that seems increasingly likely—the creation of such a secondary field would open up the door to demands for similar equally deserving programs for studying other ethnic groups.Instead of such programs existing in isolation, the University should create a broader program for those who wish to pursue secondary concentration in the study of ethnicities in America. Such a program, which could be overseen by the already-existing Committee on Ethnic Studies, would both be more efficient and put the study of specific ethnic-American groups in a broader academic context. The alternative, a broad array of narrowly...