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...This place is up and running, and it's running pretty good," he says as he slides a tray of chicken breasts into the oven. "There hasn't been a major difference. It's the same basic menu, the same basic job. Everything went smooth...
...third bill, the Secret Evidence Repeal Act, would have removed another provision of the 1996 law that violated basic principles of judicial fairness. Under the 1996 law, immigrants can be deported without being allowed to see the evidence on which their deportation is based, depriving them of all chance to present a defense. Many of the victims of the bill have been Arab-Americans: In one recent case, an Egyptian immigrant was detained without bond for three years on secret evidence until an immigration judge dismissed all the evidence as inadmissable hearsay. The bill has broad support...
Viewed in that fashion, the New Economy is nothing more than a fancy term for the basic infrastructure that allows consumers and companies across the globe to shop, work and play at Internet speed. In New York City, for example, travel agencies routinely farm out chores like updating frequent-flyer miles to online boutiques as far away as India. "All our activities from consumption to production are unalterably changed," says Allen Sinai, chief global economist for Primark Decision Economics. "In that sense, the New Economy is for real, and it's here forever...
...Overall, the subjects of the pictures that I take come from snapshots of street scenes in cities in Japan, like Tokyo. I shoot as I walk along the streets, as I walk around cities. That is my basic method of taking photos and so I haven't really changed the main subject that I photograph over the years...
...much the technology improves, it doesn't do any good. But if there are people who know how to make use of the new opportunities, then photography will continue to grow and prosper. Yet I have always thought of that type of growth and change as separate from the basic fact of me taking pictures...