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...ensure that they maintain something resembling their current standard of living - whether they get assistance from private insurance or government money. The families see it as so much more. For the traumatized, the charts are like a Rorschach test. Some view the money as a halfhearted apology for the breakdown in security and intelligence that made the attacks possible. Others can't help seeing the award as a callous measure of their loved one's value. Many regard it as a substitute for the millions they think they may have got in court, had the liability not been capped. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WTC Victims: What's A Life Worth? | 2/6/2002 | See Source »

...Huskies triumphed 3-1. Crimson freshman Nicole Corriero—the nation’s leader in goals per game—scored to tie the game at 1-1, but Northeastern tallied a power play goal in the final seconds of the second period on a defensive zone breakdown, and Harvard could not recover...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hockey Out To Defend Beanpot | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

Third, there is the disturbing racial and ethnic breakdown of low-wage labor at Harvard. Based on the HCECP’s findings, we now know that 73 percent of workers who do not earn a living wage are people of color—and this percentage has increased steadily over the course of the last decade. Yet during the 1990s, thanks in part to the leadership of former President Neil L. Rudenstine, Harvard simultaneously affirmed its commitment to, among other things, affirmative action, faculty and student diversity and the creation of the finest Afro-American Studies department...

Author: By Timothy PATRICK Mccarthy, | Title: Fair Harvard? | 1/31/2002 | See Source »

...allies in the Arab world is that Sharon's policies are a far more serious obstacle to Middle East peace than any deceit on Arafat's part. Indeed, even moderate Arab regimes may be inclined to see any illegal arms procurement by the PA as a symptom of the breakdown of the peace process and Israel's escalating military actions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grim Brinkmanship of Bush vs. Arafat | 1/25/2002 | See Source »

...withhold their labor in a strike. As a result, the workers must use the only counterforce available to them, which is to enlist the faculty and students on their behalf. The consequence has been, as you have seen, widespread disaffection, disruption of University life and educational function and a breakdown in the communality on which the University depends...

Author: By Richard C. Lewontin, | Title: Helping Workers Helps Harvard | 1/18/2002 | See Source »

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