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...recession also provoked an identity crisis for the magazine; its latest cover touted a story on where to eat a restaurant steak for $14.50. "When you're catering to an affluent audience and you're talking about huddling at home or cooking inexpensive stews, there's a disconnect," says Merri Lee Kingsly, publisher of Saveur, a rival title...
...even as the international community fetes the fresh-faced Prime Minister, Abhisit is being accused back home of an increasing disconnect with Thais living outside the air-conditioned comfort of Bangkok. Despite a brightening economic outlook that his technocrat-filled administration is quick to take credit for, there's no doubt Thailand is fraying at the edges. On Sept. 19, two days before the PM jetted off to the U.N., more than 20,000 antigovernment demonstrators bedecked in their signature red shirts flooded the Thai capital from rural areas to mark the third anniversary of a military coup against their...
...When I got the results, I was shocked," says Rick Peyser, director of social advocacy for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters in Vermont, the Fair Trade company that commissioned the survey. "I was ready to quit." Massachusetts Fair Trade firm Equal Exchange spokesman Rodney North admits, "There is a potential disconnect between what the buyer thinks Fair Trade is accomplishing and the situation on the ground," from Latin America to Asia...
...Barbara Walsh. In the aftermath of an Aug. 8, 2008 incident in which HUPD officers confronted a young black man attempting to remove a lock from his own bicycle, Walsh wrote a firmly-worded letter to the district attorney of Boston to voice his concern about the growing disconnect between Harvard police and students, according to his daughter. “He used to walk the Yard, and he would know students by name...but the police and students no longer know each other on a personal level,” Barbara Walsh said. “He thought that...
...undergraduate study.Bhatt said she hopes the study will encourage concentrators—who typically find themselves dislodged from the research sector of the department—to venture from their dining hall haunts and become more involved in the department.“There is a huge disconnect between physics undergraduates taking classes and the rest of the physics community,” Bhatt said. “One of the reasons why we wanted this study built was to bring the two together—to have the undergraduates feel like they could be a part of the physics...