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Genius or oddball? Today many consider Peter Sellars one the world??s leading theater, opera and television directors. He’s been a part of more than 100 productions, large and small, across America and abroad. He’s served as artistic director of the Boston Shakespeare Company, and at 26 he became director of the Kennedy Center’s American National Theatre...
...course, this conundrum exhibits itself in my life as a severe guilt complex. It whittles away at me from the headlines, and does so frequently because coffee is the second-largest world trade commodity, and America is the world??s biggest importer. The problem is this: to meet production costs alone, coffee farmers need to be paid $0.80 per pound of coffee. Yet the going market rate is around $0.50 per pound, with some farmers receiving less than $0.25, with no means for negotiation. Fair Trade certification requires buyers to pay $1.26 per pound, much of which...
...course, the major coffee buyers of the world??Nestle controls half the market, followed by Proctor & Gamble—are not off the hook. Their fault is in treating coffee as a commodity market item, and not as the result of quantifiable human labor. Farmers are not being paid enough to survive, while buyers and middlemen are making off like bandits. This is ethically wrong from any angle, especially considering that fair prices for coffee labor and production can be cleanly calculated...
Weller won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for war correspondence for a story on the world??s first major surgical operation in a submerged submarine, an appendectomy during which the crew had to make use of a tea strainer and spoons...
...work hard to find some solution, for it is an unbearable thought that students can receive a diploma from this university without first having learned how to live in a society based on respect for each other and our differences. If it is true that Harvard students are our world??s future leaders, then be assured, the stakes are huge. A return to Pappin’s notion of “traditional morality” would be a nightmare none of us can afford...