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Though there are some exceptions, most supporters of the living wage seem to believe that the university’s large endowment requires it, in some moral sense, to pay higher wages. This “piggy bank theory” of the endowment ignores the reality that 85 percent...

Author: By Matthew Milikowsky, | Title: The Fictional Living Wage | 1/11/2002 | See Source »

Re Lance Morrow's commentary about Islam and the West, "Who's More Arrogant?" [ESSAY, Dec. 10]: If arrogance is pride in one's superiority, then, yes, we Americans are hated for our arrogance by those who shouted for joy on Sept. 11. We are also hated for our technological...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 31, 2001 | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

Focus simply on al-Maydan's indictment (popular everywhere in the world, by the way, including the U.S.) that America is arrogant. Who can doubt it? The world's sole surviving superpower, and its most fabulously successful democracy, could not be unarrogant if it tried. But the arrogance is complicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's More Arrogant? | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

The famous "arrogance of power" is cross-grained, and self-subverted. The world might learn to be more alert to another kind, the arrogance of powerlessness--which may take the form of aggressive exaltation suffused with God's righteous, annihilating power. What is more arrogant than a vocabulary of "infidel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's More Arrogant? | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

Thank goodness for the Colorado pastor who said he is troubled by the song so often sung today, God Bless America. He believes we should say, "God bless America as well as the other nations." Do we truly think God should bless only us? How arrogant! I wish we would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 10, 2001 | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

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