The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
by Peter Singer
When philosopher Peter Singer says that billionaires’ owning giant yachts is as shamefully decadent as Roman emperors’ eating the brains and tongues of thousands of peacocks and flamingos, it’s hard to disagree. Mansions-on-the-sea like the one owned by Oracle’s Larry Ellison emit as much nitrogen oxide in an hour as a Jetta emits in 20 years….
In case the suggestively deviant ads for Calvin Klein’s Obsession weren’t proof enough that our culture is fascinated with obsession, Lennard Davis had another image that confirmed it, which he snapped at the airport: the ads for Calvin Klein’s new perfume, Secret Obsession, featuring a brown jewel-like bottle glowing gold in its center.
“As if obsession is not enough,” he joked….
Stuart Silverstein, former Deputy Political Editor at the Los Angeles Times, fondly remembered his early days reporting at the paper. “I was drawn to the Times because it really let reporters sink their teeth into stories. You could spend a lot of time doing a story and doing it well,” he said. “It was a wonderful place to be a reporter.” After starting work there, the Buffalo native fell in love with California and decided to stick around. He left the Times in September, after 23 years on the staff. Now, he’s heading up public affairs for BuildLACCD, the Los Angeles Community College District’s sustainable building program.
by Jean-Michel Maulpoix
The woman who loves me has light eyes. Her movements are calm, her
words always sensible. Sometimes I blame her for the wisdom I lack. I heap
sarcasm on her and leave her for differently winged and fanciful
creatures
With college counselors, test-prep courses, tutors, application consultants and strong secondary educations at their disposal, wealthy students have a leg up when applying to college. Stuart Silverstein, a former higher education reporter for the Los Angeles Times, quoted one college president who put it more bluntly: “There has never been a better time to be a smart, rich kid. And in some schools, you don’t have to be as smart as before.”
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