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Chester Brown doesn't need your love. His shifts in tone and subject have bucked many a reader. Part of the second generation of "underground" comix artists of the mid 1980s, Brown has gone from absurdist humor ("Ed the Happy Clown") to confessional autobiography ("I Never Liked You") to adapting the Gospels, to a fictional series with all-gibberish dialogue. His latest project, "Louis Riel," (Drawn and Quarterly; 24 pp; $2.95) the tenth and final issue of which has just arrived, was yet another radical shift in subject. Although choosing to do a biography of a 19th century mystic...
...business experts say, that companies are likely to stick to their guns. They will outsource more work--including skilled and white-collar tasks--to cheaper labor markets. They will embrace pay-for-performance schemes, which generally reward only the top-ranked workers at each wage level. And they will shift more of the costs and risks of illness and retirement to workers, especially in steel and other heavy industries...
Underlying the trend is a fundamental shift in how employers view their work force. In the old way of thinking, employees were an investment, like factories or land, says Robert Reich, former U.S. Labor Secretary and now a professor at Brandeis University. Adding workers was a major expense, and cutting them was a decision not taken lightly or often. Today, like copper ore or cotton bales or computer-memory chips, most employees are regarded as commodities to be stockpiled or shed as business warrants. Technology not only allows fewer people to do the jobs of many; it also allows their...
What makes Deftones worthwhile and, yes, one of the better albums in the brief history of the genre is that it sounds fantastic. Loud-soft dynamics are a staple of nu-metal, but Deftones doesn't just shift mood and rhythm from song to song--sometimes heavy-handedly, as in the back-to-back placement of dissonantly named tracks Good Morning Beautiful and Deathblow. It does so within songs, and sometimes within bars. It takes a tight band to pull this off, even in a recording studio. Guitarist Stephen Carpenter and bassist Chi Cheng actually seem to like melody...
...Many of the 30,000 Japanese who kill themselves every year no longer fit the stereotype of the jobless, middle-aged salaryman. Suicides are on the rise among young men and women and with the shift in demographics comes a new style of self destruction. Youth are using a bizarre Internet aberration?the suicide site?to hook up with desperate soulmates willing to share their bleak journey. In February, two women and a man, all in their 20s, met on a suicide site and killed themselves in a Saitama apartment. Since then there have been seven similar incidents...