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...point on NASDAQ. But Harvard is a "non-profit" corporation and, as such, cannot offer stock. Harvard has the means to continue paying for Hickey's employment without batting an eye. It should reward a worker like Hickey, not punish him for being loyal. And it certainly shouldn't bemoan its own poverty as justification for spurning Hickey and his peers...
...bemoan the corruption of the season if you must, but remember: that cubic zirconia ring isn't some needless trinket; it is a corpuscle in the bloodstream of a mighty economic engine. By the way, wouldn't a subscription to a lively, informative Weekly Newsmagazine make a splendid holiday offering...
There is no welcome mat at the entrance to Edward Gorey's world. Strange creatures frolic in topiary gardens, inanimate objects bemoan their fates, society types engage in meaningless expeditions, hapless children meet gruesome ends. Empty rooms and desolate landscapes speak volumes...
...made out to be. The threatening undertones that pulse through the media and recent political rhetoric are useful tools for boosting readership or scaring voters into civic submission, but they aren't reflective of any greater truth. We are a culture with a violence fixation; even as we bemoan the increased brutality of our cities, we turn the volume of the TV up to make sure we hear the final glory details...
Roll over, Alexis de Tocqueville. The oft mentioned (but less frequently read) 19th century French scribe is being invoked by every dime-store scholar and public figure these days to bemoan the passing of what the Frenchman described as one of America's distinctive virtues: civic participation. "Americans of all ages, all conditions and all dispositions," he famously wrote, "constantly form associations." In France, Tocqueville observed, a social movement is instigated by the government, in England by the nobility, but in America by an association. Tocqueville and small d democrats from Ben Franklin (who started a volunteer fire brigade...