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...rules." Nowadays, I suspect that a lot of us, who try to do exactly that, believe we're being played for suckers. We work hard, play by the rules - and get stuck with the bill. And as this recession deepens - and the economic pain spreads far and wide - that perception is dangerous. I'm just a guy who lives in Shanghai, but from a recent, relatively long visit to the U.S., I think a potentially poisonous populism - a very, very angry populism - lurks just beneath the surface these days. I'm astonished, in fact, that it hasn't really surfaced...
Chrysler: "By the end of 2008 [from 2007], Chrysler will have separated over 32,000 employees, including 5,000 white collar employees who left the company just this past Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Cost cutting has been substantial, swift and wide-ranging. Nothing has been viewed as 'sacred...
...privilege of meeting Sen. Obama during his visit. Wide-eyed, I shook his hand. He then proceeded to give my older brother a fist-pound. This was long before his “terrorist fist jab” became all the rage...
Brought together largely by e-mail and city-wide text messages, Indians from across the country's religious and ethnic spectrum marched together in Mumbai. The rally's most conspicuous demographic, though, was of another sort altogether and one rarely seen massed in protest: the affluent middle class. "This is surreal," says Dhruv Wadia, a young advertising professional, pointing to a gaggle of middle-aged women, a few sporting Louis Vuitton handbags. "All the aunties have showed up." (See a video of Mumbaikars taking to the street...
...office to search for four students to sit on the Student Faculty Judicial Board, a disciplinary body established in 1987 as an alternative to the Administrative Board. The SFJB exists specifically for cases for which the Administrative Board has no precedent and for which the outcome could have community-wide repercussions.Yet in the last 21 years, the SFJB has heard only two cases—both within the first three years of its establishment. Perhaps this is because the rusty machinery of the Student Faculty Judicial Board stands in stark contrast to the well-oiled Ad Board that forced...