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...through their different approaches, both works deal with the intersection of art and labor—“Working” by using art as a means for glorifying the worker and welcoming the viewer into the workers’ sphere, Lehyt’s sculpture by exploiting the ambiguity innate in abstract art as a means for proclaiming that labor is impossible to understand from the outside. And both “Working” and the sculpture throw into sharp relief the inability of art to embody labor, particularly on a campus where so few individuals...
...Exile A telecom billionaire who has spent much of his self-exile in Dubai, Thaksin is an unlikely savior for a legion of bus commuters. He is everything a Thai farmer or construction worker is not: a pale-complexioned ethnic Chinese with nary a callus on his palms. (Abhisit fits that category too.) But Thaksin knew how to tap into a voter base long underexploited by traditional Thai politicians. His populist policies, which included heavily subsidized health care and microfinancing schemes, delighted the lower classes and helped Thaksin win the largest electoral mandate in Thai history. Economists have critiqued...
...Osmond to do outreach on QVC, $2.5 million for a Super Bowl ad and spots on Spanish radio and soap operas and Dora the Explorer. The ads are meant to boost the response rate, since any household that doesn't mail back its form gets visited by a Census worker, another pricey line item. In all, it will work out to about $49 per person, which makes you wonder whether the government should have just sent an e-mail instead of a packet that looks like junk mail. (How about spending a little more money on design?) But the Census...
...combat this problem, many houses have put trays by the belts to aid students who choose to go trayless. This Tuesday in Annenberg, a HUDS worker was stationed by the belt to prevent problems, but Wechsler said that Green '13 would not be able to use HUDS workers in this way if it wanted to continue the program next year...
...Department of Homeland Security." His withdrawal followed the similar fate two months earlier of former FBI agent Erroll Southers, after revelations that he had tapped into a federal database seeking information on his estranged wife's boyfriend. Southers had initially told Senators he asked a co-worker's husband in the San Diego police department to run a background check, but later admitted that he himself had conducted two database searches into the man's background. (See pictures of the so-called underwear bomber...