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...hand-picked committee rejected the idea of a living wage, they tell us, and the issue is now closed. Here, in fact, is what University spokesperson Joe Wrinn told the Independent about the potential for a change of policy on the living wage issue under president-elect Lawrence H. Summers: “No. Absolutely not. None whatsoever.” This is the administration’s idea of cooperation and dialogue...
While I enjoyed Alex F. Rubalcava’s tongue-in-cheek letter to incoming president-elect Lawrence H. Summers (Opinion, “Burning Money,” April 9), it also made plain to me a disturbing trend I have found in my own thinking and some other Harvard students I know as well: a feeling of entitlement. For example, subsidized coursepacks would be nice, but there is no reason we deserve them. They are on reserve at the libraries, and thousands of students at other schools, as well as a fair number of our own, can?...
...Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study seems to me to be little more than a mockery of the old Radcliffe College. I blame institutional inertia for its continued existence, and I hope that president-elect Lawrence H. Summers will have to courage to call for its dissolution, which ought to have been accomplished during the Harvard-Radcliffe merger...
Robert E. Rubin `60, who preceded Harvard president-elect Lawrence H. Summers as Secretary of the Treasury, has been chosen to deliver this year's commencement address...
McCain pays lip service to democracy, but what exactly does democracy mean in a modern society? Few citizens have the time to master all the intricacies of today’s vast government and complex society. Instead, we elect leaders and hold them responsible for the peace and well-being of the republic. McCain’s campaign finance crusade represents an artful attempt to abdicate responsibility, to engage in the effortless demagoguery of blaming others for the failings of today’s politicians. In this regard, it is a greater threat to democracy than all the unregulated political...