IBM News-Global Layoffs

IBM, the world’s largest computer-services provider, began cutting jobs in the U.S. and around the world Wednesday as part of a global restructuring plan announced in April, IBM acknowledged and workers reported. Based on data gathered from around the world, Alliance at IBM estimates several thousand cuts already have been made or are planned.

A Brazilian Autumn?

Miguel Borba de Sa Jacobin
The movement is battlefield, highlighting all the contradictions of Brazilian society.

The Office Battle

Tough day at work? You're not in it alone. FixMyJob.com can help you fix your workplace problems. From WorkingAmerica.

Movie: How to Make Money Selling Drugs

Ten easy steps show you how to make money from drugs, featuring a series of interviews with drug dealers, prison employees, and lobbyists arguing for tougher drug laws. Woody Harrelson, Susan Sarandon, Eminem.

James Gandolfini's Other Work: Wartorn 1861-2010

Executive produced by James Gandolfini, Wartorn draws on personal stories of American soldiers whose lives and psyches were torn asunder by the horrors of battle, from the Civil War through today’s conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
 

Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong

Marvin Zalman Proving Innocence
The cumulative effect of Convicting the Innocent is stunning. Almost all of the 250 DNA exonerations occurred in murder or rape cases. Murder and rape amounts to less than 1% of all felony convictions. The errors typically flowed not from malicious motives but from the normal cognitive biases that lead detectives and prosecutors to be convinced that they have the right person. The result must be thousands of erroneous guilty pleas and trial convictions each year.

The Great Gandolfini

Tom Carson The American Prospect
James Gandolfini's genius was his knack for humanizing but not sentimentalizing his tough guy characters.