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...Ending this cycle of emigration won't be easy. Aileen Constantino-Peñas, who works for the NGO Atikha, says part of the problem is that most children of migrant workers "do not have the slightest idea of the difficult situations their parents face." More and more women are leaving to work in private homes as domestic helpers, a job that can mean putting up with long hours and cramped living quarters - and, all too often, abusive employers. But few of the grim details get shared in the regular phone calls parents make home to their kids. Through workshops...
...relegated to manual labor: whether I was churning the italian ice every fifteen minutes, tackling a never-ending pile of dishes, or furiously scrubbing all manner of surfaces, I was always occupied by a paranoid and micromanaging Ron, who seemed to be perennially watching me for the slightest mistake. I also discovered that the staff at IceScapes was so young and inexperienced because of an astronomical turnover rate, and that my “friends” from high school—employees for a full three months longer than myself—felt quite comfortable ordering me around like...
...American who has the slightest contact with a television, radio, or newspaper knows the unlikely story of George W. Bush: a party-going, beer-loving, underachieving cowboy from Texas somehow beats all odds to become the 43rd President of the United States. But “W.,” Oliver Stone’s disappointing and ill-advised dramatization of this story, “misunderestimates” the role that intrigue and innovation, rather than controversy alone, play in depicting the life of a leader...
...There is not even the slightest pretense that the music being made by the avant-garde is commercially viable in its present form. The work is difficult at the best of times. But perhaps that is its point. "I guess the reason noise art is so poignant in China," says Ohlsson, "is that it's dramatically anticommercial in a place where everything is very commercial...
...good! The poetry would not come. Frederick let out a choked scream and pounded the ground with his fists. So many days the verse had flowed out at the slightest suggestion, and here, now, when he needed it most, nothing. The poetry would not come...