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...This latest campaign is part of a larger trend among campus activists: Since they can’t enact the change they desire, they might as well show that they are good, moral people. Many student activists are sincere in their efforts and accept that they’re promoting lost causes. But, besides being futile, this approach can harm the very causes that students support...
...line with those of our peer institutions. This academic year, Harvard paid its full professors an average of $192,600, according to the American Association of University Professors. By contrast, Stanford paid its professors $181,900, Princeton paid $180,300, and Yale paid $174,700. Asking our professors to accept the same salaries as their counterparts at Stanford seems fair, especially considering that, just two years ago, the average salary at Harvard was $177,400. The faculty has about 450 full professors, and paying at Stanford levels would save about $10,000 per head, a total savings of about...
Many of the current negotiations trace back to the terms of the original government loans. As a condition of Chrysler's loan agreement, the UAW must accept a 50% reduction in payments to its retiree health care trust and match the Japanese transplants' hourly labor costs, says Chrysler spokeswoman Dianna Gutierrez. "The Canadian government has taken a similar position as it relates to the CAW," she notes...
...knows where things are headed. "I don't think this is going to have a very happy ending," says one UAW official, who asked not to be identified. But he noted it was inevitable the union will have to accept additional cuts. One of the union's fears, though, is that the negotiations turn into a sort of arbitrage that sets active Chrysler workers against retirees - a split the UAW has always sought to avoid. "People are angry. Where do you draw the line and say to hell with it and just let them go into bankruptcy?" says one disgruntled...
...country that is still struggling with Mao Zedong's legacy - where the official line quantitatively insists that Mao was 70% right and only 30% wrong - Hu Jiwei's views on Deng will no doubt be a hard one to accept. Ching Cheong, a Hong Kong-based writer who was imprisoned by Chinese authorities for almost three years for espionage, put this in rather blunt terms at the book event. "[China does] not dare to face its history," he says...