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...lost something with the decline of social restraint. Civility is essential to social cohesion. When everyone agrees, in an implicit social contract, that they should behave in a certain way-avoid particular words, offer specific courtesies-the realms of the private and the public are yoked together. When you are polite not just to your friends and family, but to everyone with whom you come into contact, a network of trust is established in a society. Trust is the bedrock upon which social and economic exchange is built. Where trust is absent, suspicion rules; you deal only with those...
...SEIU’s contract, which covers Harvard’s 800 custodians until November 2005, requires the University to use its “best effort” to meet the 60 percent mark through attrition—replacing departing part time workers with full-time jobs. The University has until the contract ends to meet the requirement...
...faculty, many of whom say they were tired of teaching "half-truths" at secular colleges and feel relieved to "come out of the closet" as Christians. The oath policy has cost the school in dealings with the outside world, including the loss of a $3.4 million government contract to run an early-education program last fall. But it also opens A.P.U. to the world of rich and dedicated Christians, who in just the past year helped boost the school's donations 50%, to $12 million. At a time when President George W. Bush is trumpeting new faith-based initiatives, schools...
...Vinatieri is also indulging these days, having signed a 3-year, $4.5 million contract extension after his Super Bowl heroics two years ago. Foxboro sits a long way from his rustic birthplace, Yanktown, S.D., where another distant relative, great-great grandfather Felix Vinatieri, also put ice water in Adam?s blood. Felix served as George Custer?s band leader, but the 5-foot-2 Italian immigrant missed out on Little Big Horn after Custer, sensing danger, left Vinatieri and his 16-member brass band on a Powder River supply boat before succumbing to Crazy Horse. ?That was very fortunate...
Whereas public transportation serves to reduce traffic, pollution and particularly roadway maintenance costs, the Big Dig has raised costs for the MBTA by forcing the authority to rebuild and relocate stations and track lines that were intruding on highway construction. In addition, the 1991 Big Dig contract with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection requires that the MBTA complete a series of projects to provide mitigation for the new Central Artery’s environmental impact. In an independent report released in 2002, the Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research estimated that these mitigation efforts alone would cost the MBTA...