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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN His blue-collar anthems were both bitter and proud, lamenting the outrages, and reveling in the glories, of everyday life in America. Born in the U.S.A. isn't a patriotic showstopper but a song about a destitute angry...
...most popular song in Kenya last year was Nchi ya Kitu Kidogo (Country of Bribes), a sing-along tune about the ubiquity of corruption in everyday life. If you're trying to succeed in school, if you're sick in the hospital or if you lose your identity card, goes the lyric, to get anything done in Kenya you have to pay a bribe. Kenyans have adopted the song as an anti-officialdom anthem, and they flock to appearances by its 28-year-old writer and singer, Eric Wainaina. "We like it because it's the truth," says Judy Elahuya...
...sold booklets purporting to show exactly how to combine "everyday household products" to make cocaine - these booklets, of course, are "for law enforcement officials only." How do these vendors check your credentials? They...
Needless to say, I left the room feeling uneasy. We have come to expect a certain level of invasion, grown accustomed to the corporate world subliminally and overtly attempting to infiltrate our minds’ everyday processes. But are we willing to give up the sanctity of our bathrooms...
Thursday’s march to Summers’ home was a temporary disruption to demonstrate our commitment to the janitors’ demands. Yet our disruption pales in comparison to the intrusion that Summers makes everyday in the homes of hundreds of workers through his poverty wage policies. The employment policies that he maintains, via his lackeys at the negotiating table, invade the homes and family lives of hundreds of workers throughout the Boston region everyday...