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...want the council’s mailing list to become merely a yellow pages of Harvard businesses. But one announcement when a business starts up would be useful, as long as the council gives any business—student-run or otherwise—equal opportunity to announce their opening...
Campaign finance reform also disregards personal fortunes candidates can use during elections. The law attempts to limit the playing field by allowing candidates to voluntarily accept equal amounts from the government should they reject soft money. This rule, however, makes it a crime for a wealthy donor to contribute to campaigns while it does not limit use of a candidate’s personal fortune. Thus, the law favors the wealthy as well as entrenched incumbents...
Some farmers have decided to eliminate these middlemen by forming cooperatives and selling directly to American distributors like “Equal Exchange.” Equal Exchange agrees to buy the fairly traded coffee at $1.26 per pound—$1.41 if it is organically grown. The market price paid by coyotes to farmers fluctuates around 40 cents per pound—the extra dollar goes into the often poverty stricken hands of Latin American, African and Asian coffee farmers...
...HUDS must make student satisfaction—specifically cost and taste—its main concern. While the organic, fair trade coffee is higher in price than New England Coffee, HUDS’ non-fair trade brand, the increase in cost is consistent with an increase in quality. The Equal Exchange coffee is organic and presumably tastes better—at least it does...
...friends and I used to do comedic improv, it was understood when a scene was over—it was when we descended into discussions of sex with animals. The introduction of bestiality symbolized an exhaustion of creativity. It’s just too easy: juxtaposition and titillation equal humor. Yet when the subject is tackled not as a plot twist, but as a main topic, for a new play with no less an author than Edward Albee, attention must be paid. Could Albee, the master of exploring the absurd to gain insight into the mundane, have found a path...