Where’s my Dada?

It was, and it was not, the best time to take a break from the last-minute race to clean the loft for incoming summer renters. There was still much to do—from cleaning out the pantry to filing a year’s worth of paperwork, still stacked in not-so-neat piles on my desk.

Corralling the many projects of my mercurial, creative family to clear a path for another family, with needs of its own (for order, perhaps?) was taxing my spirit, as well as my corpus.

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Corporate soul

By SKIP MENDLER

Whether it’s ExxonMobil or Halliburton, Lockheed Martin or ADM, Enron or New York Regional Interconnect, Inc., you can’t look for long at peace, social justice or environmental issues in the U.S. without running into questions about one of the fundamental institutions of our society, namely the corporation. The impact of corporations on every aspect of our lives, and especially our political process, has never been greater—and never before have we been confronted with so many critical questions about the responsibilities that corporations bear to the society in which they operate.

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