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...insists that Burma resembles Orwell's dystopia more with each passing year, from its crippling power cuts to the desperate popular obsession with the lottery. (Everyone in Burma seems to play the numbers.) But when I compare him to Winston, the rebellious protagonist who dares to trust his co-worker Julia, Ko Myo frowns and looks uncharacteristically glum. "There are no Winstons in this country," he says quietly. "People here don't even trust themselves anymore." Although he supports the U.S. sanctions, Ko Myo does not believe they will topple the regime, and now?after years of staying to help...
...Mart employees. Bertrand (Andy Riel), by dint of becoming the fastest checkout clerk on the Eastern seaboard, has been given the honor of making an inspirational speech, but before his speech he has gotten drunk and cloistered himself in the bathroom to vomit. He is encouraged by his co-worker Gary Girard (Kevin LaVelle) and tormented by the diabolical Stuart Steadfast (Greg Luzitano), who wants to steal his glory. Stuart’s momentary presence is the best part of this sequence; his cruel, demonic laughter is accompanied by melodramatic flashes of thunder and lightning. The rest of the sketch...
Last night, while bringing bottled water to the register at the grocery store near Mather, I heard the clerk say something to his co-worker in Bengali. “You’re from India too?” I found myself asking him in my best Bengali accent. A five-minute conversation ensued, in which I learned that he was in fact Bangladeshi, but originally from Calcutta, and that his family owned several grocery stores back home. We laughed together over a joke only South Asians would appreciate, and as I walked out of the store I thought...
...responded to all but one of the question posed to him, only declining to reveal the salary of the lowest-paid worker at Harvard Management Company...
...Stocking, released by Nissin Medico in Japan last year and now available in the U.S., is applied like spray paint and makes legs appear to be covered by hosiery. Company founder Yoshiumi Hamada says he got the idea for the product while speaking to a female co-worker who complained of wearing hosiery in the heat. Air Stocking costs around $28 a can (yielding 20 to 25 applications), comes in three colors and washes off with soap and warm water. --By Tamika Edwards