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That said, neither the PSLM nor any of its supporters have gotten it right. Their goal is to have Harvard University pay a living wage. Why should Harvard have to pay a living wage? Because it has $19 billion, the PSLM says. Some add to this argument by saying that because Harvard raises the property values and the standard of living in Cambridge, it therefore owes its workers a living wage. Both arguments, however, are meritless...
...Serbian people to confront their recent past, but underestimate the extent to which moving the trial to another country undercuts any such attempt. Second, it is argued that moving the trial to the Hague would serve as a deterrent to ethnic violence elsewhere, which is a weak argument indeed; if that were true, the Nuremberg trials should have served as a deterrent to the war criminals on all sides in the Balkans in the 1990s. The final and most fundamental motivation, however, is that Milosevic’s extradition represents a personal satisfaction for those Western nations and officials...
...first reason is a criticism of minimum wages in general: There is no compelling argument for paying people more than they voluntarily agree to accept. Nobody is being forced to work at Harvard against his or her will. If the employees who would benefit from PSLM’s proposal feel slighted, they are perfectly free to go elsewhere in search of more lucrative employment...
With characteristic sensationalism, PSLM points out that some of Harvard’s money managers earn annual salaries of over $10 million. But this argument misses the point. While it would be wonderful if Harvard could pay its financial gurus less, doing so wouldn’t give them an adequate incentive to render their services here—services that are vital to Harvard’s academic aims in a way that the labors of individual less-skilled workers...
...Although some people in Washington make the argument that Taiwan has changed fundamentally since that policy was adopted, and that the geopolitics of the Taiwan Strait have changed so much that the policy should be changed. Others are not convinced that anything has changed to the extent that requires rethinking "strategic ambiguity." And there's always the danger of giving Taiwan a signal that they have carte blanche to do what they will and the U.S. will defend them. Taiwan may take that as a signal to push the edge of the envelope on independence, and provoke Beijing to seek...