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...American Repertory Theater (ART) staff members say they employ more than *** Harvard undergraduates over the course of a year in various capacities, such as working in the box office, ushering and working as security staff. The ART gives preference when hiring to students interested in the theater. Three-quarters of their student employees fall into this category...
...really wants cocaine or heroin from getting ( it. But they do permit the sellers to charge sky-high prices as a kind of risk premium. The high prices, in turn, produce enormous profits that irresistibly lure vicious gangs, who are taking over large areas of cities. The gangs employ armies of pushers who spread the very plague the drug laws are supposed to combat. Says Milton Friedman, guru of free-market economists and a Nobel prizewinner: "The harm that is done by drugs is predominantly caused by the fact that they are illegal. You would not have had the crack...
...result, practices that would provoke lawsuits elsewhere go virtually unnoticed on Capitol Hill. "We have Congressmen who discriminate against blacks, against whites, against Hispanics, against women," says Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson. Says Jackie Parker of the Senate Black Legislative Caucus: "There are offices that employ no blacks at all." An investigation found that of the 152 Senate employees earning more than $70,000 a year, only 18 are women...
Defenders of congressional exemptions point out that legislators face special pressures: they often need to employ home-district personnel or friends of supporters. Stanley Brand, a former general counsel to the House, says Congress historically has not placed itself under the yoke of various laws to protect itself from inter-Government conflicts. Imagine, he says, the Justice Department using charges of job discrimination to harass unfriendly Congressmen. Besides, "the reality of going before the voters and seeking election should force Congressmen to behave," he says...
...what the workers need at Harvard, and what they have never had, is a forceful advocate. For all the arguments about whether Harvard is a good employer, it does employ thousands of people. Those people deserve to have an organized voice, and HUCTW is just that voice. Workers should strike a blow for openness at the University for all the groups who have no say in Harvard governance...