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...Pressure could be mounting from other corners in Hollywood as well. Below-the-line workers like grips, costumers and makeup artists have been among the first to feel the pinch of lost income. "I support what the writers want," says Jim Lapidus, who runs the costume department on the Fox show 24, which sacrificed its entire season to the strike. "I don't support the way they did it. I wish they would have stayed at the table and we all would have stayed working." Lapidus's tone is considerably more measured than that of Thomas Short, the president...
...Justin Fox wrote a very good article on Denmark. He noted that the country's per capita income trails that of the U.S., but salaries here tend to be higher than those in Britain. And while it might be easier to fire a worker in Denmark than elsewhere in Europe, companies must follow strict rules that require advance notice of termination. Fox was correct in observing that most workers assume more responsibility than do their fellow Europeans. I have been a resident of Denmark since 1989, and I have no desire to return to Britain. John Barton, VEJLE, DENMARK...
...analytic agenda. They present the different themes the photographs analyze and critique: the disappearance of the vernacular, the spreading of homogeneous suburbs and corporations, and, finally, the decaying inner cities left behind. Empty shop windows, Levittowns, and boarded-up apartment buildings tell the story. According to William L. Fox, the author of the first essay appearing in the afterword, the inner city is ruinous and local businesses are disappearing as a direct consequence of the spread of suburbia. As the tax base rushes to new localities in the hope of peace and quiet, they leave no incentive for investment...
...Justin Fox wrote a very good article on Denmark. He noted that its per capita income trails that of the U.S., but salaries here tend to be higher than in Britain. And while it might be easier to fire a worker in Denmark than elsewhere in Europe, companies must follow strict rules that require advance notice of termination. I have been a resident of Denmark since 1989, and I have no desire to return to Britain. John Barton, Vejle, Denmark...
...That is, unless you exploit it like Fox Sports columnist Jason Whitlock, who used Taylor’s murder as an opportunity to bash his favorite piñata: hip-hop. Whitlock has a long history of railing against gangster rap and the element of black culture it represents—the “Black KKK,” as he calls it. To Whitlock, the evolution of this genre is a cause of black Americas’ high crime rates and low socioeconomic status. He puts some of the blame for Taylor’s death, as well...