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...finance, repeatedly avow not to “sell out,” and abjure any attraction to filthy lucre. Surely, earning a pay check, in whichever way one chooses to do so, comes with its attendant drudgery: It is the fate of man to earn his keep by toil. Perhaps that is why activism comes so effortlessly to Harvard students—they acutely realize the effort of employment and the comparative ease of stroking one’s ego while greedily claiming the moral high ground. The ivory-tower activist only need reach for his keyboard...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: A Band-Aid for Bleeding Hearts | 11/4/2007 | See Source »

...CULT OF THE SMALL FAMILY FARMER dates back to Thomas Jefferson, who hailed humble "cultivators of the earth" as America's "most valuable" and "most virtuous" citizens. Politicians still paint American Gothic portraits of the country folk who toil in the soil to grow our food and fiber. But at the Husker Harvest Days farm show in September in Grand Island, Neb., it was clear how far American agriculture had come from the days when Cornhuskers husked corn by hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Our Farm Policy Is Failing | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...example: using his own relentless pace to inspire French citizens to work longer hours, achieve higher efficiency, and renew their love of labor. The effort is central to Sarkozy's attempt to boost economic growth through a nationwide increase in workforce productivity - a goal that requires motivating people to toil beyond the nation's legal 35-hour-workweek limitation, and, as he has put it, "Work more to earn more." But now Sarkozy is applying that slogan to himself with unexpected literalness: he is moving to increase his presidential salary by nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarkozy Moves to Boost His Salary | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...person on health care. As a result, killer diseases like malaria and tuberculosis run rampant, and roughly half a million people are infected with HIV. Nearly one-third of children under five years of age are malnourished; of those who are healthy, some rural youngsters are forced to toil as child labor. The urban middle class doesn't fare too much better. Although Burma's main export is natural gas, most Rangoon residents can only rely on a few hours of electricity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: General Command | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...seldom feel entirely at home. Almost everyone pictured in Stopover has relatives overseas or hopes to emigrate. "No country needs a sugar-cane cutter," Connew says, but other countries might want the cane cutter's accountant daughter or engineer son. Even in the holidays, Dharmen expects his sons to toil at maths and English; once they leave Fiji, Connew writes, they will "reach back to extract their parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cutting Out | 9/14/2007 | See Source »

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