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'Go Work at McDonald's' Gets a Makeover in France (Les Echos)

Though McDonald's makes more profits in France than anywhere outside the US, it is still reviled by many. On at least one front, the fast-food giant is trying to change its image from the home of the dead-end job. Read HERE.

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In A World Of Hunger And Greed, Knowledge For Its Own Sake Is More Vital Than Ever

Students are now paying customers and the world revolves around capital and commerce. But reading and education are our best forms of both pleasure and resistance. Reminders from assassinated Spanish poet Federico García Lorca.

In A World Of Hunger And Greed, Knowledge For Its Own Sake Is More Vital Than Ever

"The classics are not read to get a degree, but to learn to live."

Reinaldo Spitaletta

-Essay-

BOGOTÁ — In 1931, when inaugurating the public library of his hometown of Fuente Vaqueros in southern Spain, the poet Federico García Lorca gave a speech about hunger. He spoke of a hunger for learning and its baser variety, inside the belly, denouncing those who speak of economic demands without ever mentioning the cultural needs "for which peoples have cried out."

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