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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Although the ordinance does not affect Harvard directly, it establishes a community standard for a fair and just wage. Harvard has an opportunity to be at the labor forefront as a private institution that cares about the living standards of its workers," said Daniel R. Morgan '99, a member of Harvard's Living Wage Campaign...

Author: By Christopher R. Blazejewski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: City Council Approves Living Wage Ordinance | 5/4/1999 | See Source »

...nation was founded not so long ago on the principles of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." However, many Americans lose their liberty in an enslavement to their individual pursuits of happiness, caring little for the lives they affect--even end--in the process. The more general "other" is whoever gets in the way of one's plans, one's desires or the preservation of one's way of life...

Author: By Christa M. Franklin, | Title: Selfism: The New Prejudice | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...emotion and free will. But Medem doesn't frame his work as an attack so much as he poses it as a question. What if even the most intimate aspects of our lives were nothing but a mathematical sequence of events?, he asks. How would the knowledge of this affect the way we live...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 2-> 1: A Math Made in Heaven | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...sing," and Sonesh Chainani '99 argued that poets are "just the beautiful people" not the "unacknowledged legislators of the world" as Bysshe Percy Shelley once claimed. Dan Chiasson, a teaching fellow in the English Department, responded to the question with a moving statement on the power of poetry to affect our innermost needs: "You ought to read poetry because there's nothing else in your life that can do the job poetry does. I'm not exactly sure what that job is, but I know, at least for me, that I need it done. Poetry offers a verbal form...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, | Title: Poems. Poems. Poems | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...sing," and Sonesh Chainani '99 argued that poets are "just the beautiful people" not the "unacknowledged legislators of the world" as Bysshe Percy Shelley once claimed. Dan Chiasson, a teaching fellow in the English Department, responded to the question with a moving statement on the power of poetry to affect our innermost needs: "You ought to read poetry because there's nothing else in your life that can do the job poetry does. I'm not exactly sure what that job is, but I know, at least for me, that I need it done. Poetry offers a verbal form...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Reviews for National Poetry Month | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

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