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What is the greatest threat to the Philippines' national security? I agree with President Bush that right now the greatest threat in the whole world is terrorism. But I also believe that terrorism and poverty are interlinked. And as terrorism is a security threat, so is poverty, because when people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'To Sacrifice and To Suffer' | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

But these same prudential arguments that should lead you to raise the wages of the lowest paid workers apply with equal force to the question of a cost of living adjustment. As inflation continues, a wage that begins as barely sufficient soon becomes a poverty wage. The claim that this...

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

No, those orders, and the ideas that animate them, come from men like Osama bin Laden, spoiled son of a Saudi tycoon—or from hijacker Mohamed Atta, born to a middle-class Egyptian family and radicalized by ideas imbibed at German universities—or from the host...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Ideology of Our Enemies | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

Some of our readers were not pleased with the focus of the April 20 article. They pointed out that the crowds supporting the sit-in were far larger than the ones opposed to it. The Crimson, these readers argued, was making a big deal out of a very small group...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, | Title: Fit To Print? | 5/18/2001 | See Source »

This is a show about failure. Necessarily so: its subject is the fallacies and delusions of human hope. Utopia has never existed. It is one of the enduring phantoms of the human mind, because it cannot be tested; every time someone tries it, it fails, and whenever it fails, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas: The Phantom of Utopia | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

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