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...minimum wage and benefits, like the earned income tax credit, are not enough for many working families. This claim is inherently reasonable given the high cost of living in the Boston area. For those of us who believe in stronger national solutions for fighting poverty, such an argument is no great leap...
Continuing on the pro-living wage line of argument, one has to believe that Harvard has a responsibility to decide what wage level is necessary to guarantee a certain living standard for workers in a wide variety of family situations. Let’s say that the average Harvard service worker has 1.3 workers in his family and 2.2 children. What’s the appropriate wage? Should Harvard pay as if there were one worker or two? How does the family with seven children or the single worker with no family affect this wage calculation? Do both parents have...
...years India has been trying to put down an independence insurgency in the part of Kashmir it holds. Its official line is that the insurgency is fueled by Pakistan, not by the Kashmiri people?that it is a proxy war. The world has disregarded that argument, knowing India was stubbornly ignoring its own problems with the mostly Muslim Kashmiris, who have revived a call for a plebiscite that the United Nations promised them in 1949 to determine whether they would be part of India or part of Pakistan...
...approached my inquiry into “why jocks exist” with some acidity. I was under the impression that the Harvard presses, which are almost entirely devoid of athletes, were portraying athletes too reverently. Somewhere between my heavy sarcasm and my earnestness, there was the nutmeg of argument...
...years India has been trying to put down an independence insurgency in the part of Kashmir it holds. Its official line is that the insurgency is fueled by Pakistan, not by the Kashmiri people-that it is a proxy war. The world has disregarded that argument, knowing India was stubbornly ignoring its own problems with the mostly Muslim Kashmiris, who have revived a call for a plebiscite that the U.N. promised them in 1949 to determine whether they would be part of India or part of Pakistan...