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...sure, SIA's government backing does not translate into obvious excess. The airline's headquarters is located in a drab industrial building on Changi Airport's grounds. Its furniture looks worn enough to date to the airline's launch (and an orange color scheme reveals its 1970s sensibilities). A few years ago, data-processing operations were moved to Bombay, India, for the cost savings...
...part of the solution to injustices in the world or part of the problem, depending on the jobs we choose. However, the question of which occupations belong in which category is often oversimplified into a single Robert Frost-style fork in the road. We can go the well-worn corporate route, pursuing careers in finance or consulting and working 100 hours a week to afford apartments in Manhattan that, for new hires, are little more than crash pads between marathon workdays. The other option, equally dismal, is to devote oneself purely to the far-less-traveled path of public service...
...worn out,” she wrote. “I’d put academics on the back burner, and I wanted to reclaim what was left of my time at Harvard to focus on academics... it wasn’t hard to walk away from the UC, because I wanted my life back...
...employment and the comparative ease of stroking one’s ego while greedily claiming the moral high ground. The ivory-tower activist only need reach for his keyboard, or, if he feels adventurous that day, grab a placard and march in the square, to soothe his weary conscience worn down by the moral baggage of upper-middle-class luxury. Common sense approved by custom once deemed the best goods to be those most difficult to attain—the postmodern Academy has, thanks to the e-mail petition (located at www.UBSpetition.org, if you are curious), overthrown that logic.But this...
...women's breasts to be suspended from above than cantilevered from beneath. That is, she invented bra straps. So instead of walking around wearing the lingerie equivalent of the London Bridge, women could slide themselves into a Golden Gate. This was a huge relief--as anyone who has worn a strapless bra can tell you--because the London Bridge pretty much always falls down...