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Marshall Ganz, a Kennedy School Professor and former colleague of Contreras, describes him as “smart, driven to make a difference, resilient, and gifted with a sense of humor that helped make it possible for him to broker relationships that surprised everyone.” Ganz’ comment could describe union bosses in general. They are men and women who get things done for people who would otherwise be ignored by those in power...
...road at the staff-heavy Cineworld, we would have stumped up a third more for our seats. Shunning popcorn, I looked out for the discount easyPizza delivery I'd ordered online more than a week earlier. Sure enough, setting the gold standard for brand synchronization, my pizza was driven to the cinema doors minutes after lights up. I drove back to London for an evening at home with a dvd rented from the online, pay-as-you-go easyCinema service. Price? Just $3.50. The picture? Easy Rider. The next morning, nine passengers shuttled up the motorway to Luton airport inside...
Roma in Kosovo are in danger from a deadly combination of a toxic environment and bureaucratic stalemate. In November 1999, in the aftermath of the war in Kosovo, about 200 Roma, driven from their homes by ethnic Albanian extremists, were placed in refugee camps near Trepca, one of the largest lead-and-zinc mines in Europe. Last June, the World Health Organization (WHO) conducted blood tests on 75 Roma adults and children in the camps; 44 proved to be massively contaminated by lead. The camps have still not been evacuated. Refugees live "the life of animals," says Agron Qosa...
...entertaining in chronicling the brawls "between liberals and radicals" during the cold war, when the magazine's writers would spar over the major issues of the day: race, sex and communism. In recent years, the Nation has drifted toward ideological orthodoxy, which has cheered its liberal base but driven out such lively writers as Christopher Hitchens, who quit to protest the magazine's shrill contempt for the Bush Administration's foreign policy. Navasky's book is a reminder of a time when magazines served as forums for "moral and political argument, rational deliberation, critical analysis of the problem." Those...
Although this aspect can occasionally be inconsistent as well, it is Stevens’ attentive pen-and-ink renderings that carry the work. Accordingly, Stevens often abandons the dialogue-driven narrative for an entire page, favoring a cinematic style of slow, atmospheric visual observation...