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Quad Library: Administrators say they’re converting it into “social space,” so now Quadlings will have to toil away on papers in Lamont. Just one more reason to pray you’re not Quadded. Beg the River Gods, nightly...

Author: By Molly M. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Life Under Budget Cuts | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...Bright lamp: The lighting in your room will be spotty, so save your eyes when you toil until sunrise...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese and Amy Sun, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Must-Haves for Life in College | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...debacle aside, the rotten apple in our culture is the notion that executives are able to "create" value that is worth astronomical multiples of that created by the daily toil of ordinary members of our society. We have lost our sense of proportion. Jim Williams, Castle Rock, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...debacle aside, the rotten apple in our culture is the notion that executives are able to "create" value that is worth astronomical multiples of that created by the daily toil of ordinary members of our society. We have lost our sense of proportion. Jim Williams, CASTLE ROCK, COLO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...Support, though, is hard to come by in countries where unemployment is skyrocketing and competition for jobs fierce. Oil palm plantations in Malaysia, which involve intense toil under the hot sun, were once the exclusive province of migrant labor, but laid-off Malaysians like former factory worker Palani Kandasamy are turning to this sort of work. "The pay is lower, but it is impossible to live in the city without a job," he says. Kandasamy now harvests oil palm fruit in a plantation south of Kuala Lumpur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Migrant Workers: A Hard Life Gets Harder | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

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