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...jock schools” is erroneous. Unlike their athletic brethren at “big-time jock factories,” Harvard athletes make a conscious choice to forego “alumni freebies,” athletic scholarships and hero worshipping students for the right to gain a decent education and the opportunity to passionately compete in sports...
...growth in the first place—to better our lives. The Nobel Prize-winning Harvard economist and moral philosopher Amartya Sen believes that we should replace our current definition of living standard based on income, with a living standard based on the freedom or capability to live a decent life, such as the freedom to own a home, raise a child, and to be educated. Such a change would be drastic, but it does not have to be revolutionary. Imagine a shift in policy away from promoting growth that may raise the incomes of the poor slightly but ultimately...
Fidel Castro’s regime has since 1959 brought dignity and equality to the lives of millions of Cubans, has assured them of a decent standard of living and has given meaning to the lives of millions of others by engaging them in the effort to build a new society based on love and self-sacrifice rather than the self-indulgence that characterized Cuban society before 1959 and American society today. He has carried out this social revolution with little tolerance for dissent, but at the same time with a regard for human life and mercy that...
...immediate first goal of PSLM is to help security guards and dining service workers win decent wages in their current or upcoming renegotiations of wages. There are still hundreds of security guards and dining service workers at Harvard earning below a “living wage” as defined by the City of Cambridge, which on March 1 was increased to $11.11 per hour. The guards have not received a raise in several years...
Second, many decent and honorable people in Cuba are Communists. They work in government agencies, schools, laboratories, and clinics to improve the lives of their fellow citizens. Often, they succeed in spite of daunting obstacles. Supporting and recognizing good people who do good work does make sense...