Word: powers
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...every stripe. Keith Mann, an adjunct professor of history and sociology at DePaul, agrees that all the antiglobalist roads seem to converge on a single point. "The students feel they are of the same ilk, but they're not sure why," he says. "In an age of diffuse power, this is something students can grab onto. The IMF and the World Bank are a clear and present power...
...rally against the IMF. For Emily LaBarbera-Twarog, who works at the Midwest office of the Campaign for Labor Rights, the goal is "to stop the meeting from happening." For Vaughan the aim is "to give us a voice at the table. We're not just fighting power," she says; "we're fighting specific policies." Munson's agenda is more sweeping: "We want to get rid of the World Bank...
...against a fearsome acronym. When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, moved by a belief that small is beautiful and big is hideous, set out to build a personal computer that would challenge IBM's great mainframes, their aim was not merely technical but also social. They wanted to bring power to the people. Now the people have it, and they're using it. To do precisely what is still a mystery...
...politicians, burbling over how to educate the underclass, would do well to stop by Room 56 this week, as Rafe Esquith's fifth-grade class mounts its annual Shakespeare play. There are few costumes--mainly T shirts inscribed with an image of the Bard under the words WILL POWER. Most of Esquith's 29 pupils are classified as gifted or high achievers, but that hardly guarantees success in an environment where poverty and gangsterism are endemic. Some of his incoming students this year "didn't know two times three," he says. "Four of them couldn't write a sentence...
...imaginative connection between Humboldt and Schwartz, but neither did he think it a topic much worth discussing. And he was right. For a quarter-century, untold thousands of people who never heard of Delmore Schwartz have read Humboldt's Gift and been beguiled by its stand-alone fictional power. That is what thousands more, knowing nothing of Allan Bloom, will eventually find in Ravelstein...