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...some potential growth in order to have a minimum wage or progressive taxation, it’s free to do so. Harvard is just as free to make certain sacrifices in order to raise wages and make conditions a little less painful for some of its workers. But to couch the demand for higher wages in the language of universal rights—which does not lend itself to the comparison of potential costs and benefits—is at best a misunderstanding and at worst a political ploy...
...panting Secret Service agent burst into the room, saying there was an unidentified plane in the airspace. "I couldn't see a thing without my contacts, so I held on to my husband to go down to the basement," she says. "Before they could get the lumpy foldout couch made up, they identified the plane. I got back to sleep, but I can't say the President...
...COUCH COMPUTING Somewhere along the way, information appliances morphed from the worthy idea of a streamlined PC into $500 style statements that failed miserably. But Cidco could breath life into this much maligned category with its Mivo 350, a $200 machine that lets people send and receive e-mail, view attached photos and get news updates for $15 a month. Best of all, it's wireless, so users can compute from their sofas and easy chairs...
...Most of the nation's cable lines are in the hands of rivals like AOL Time Warner (parent company of this writer) and half-rivals like AT&T Broadband and Comcast who have plenty of content-distribution deals already inked - making reasonably priced access via cable into the U.S. couch-potato market hard to find. Making EchoStar-DirecTV and its control of 90 percent of the current satellite-TV market a perfect partner...
...What do U.S. couch potatoes get, besides the five extra channels of Baywatch reruns and "The Mummy Returns"? Well, maybe a wake-up call for the cable guy. Vertically unchallenged AOL, for instance, might hurry up with long-promised goodies like (Warner Brothers) movies on demand (in Time Warner cable homes). Or Cablevision, which raised rates in suburban New York by 12 percent last year alone, might slow down on the price hikes. Or they might both sic their lobbyists on Washington - Murdoch will come along for the ride - and bust up the EchoStar-DirecTV union, putting satellite TV back...