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Congress is about to make life a lot tougher--and more expensive--for people like the Trapp family of Plantation, Fla. As if their life isn't hard enough already. Eight-year-old Annelise, the oldest of the three Trapp children, is a bright, spunky, dark-haired wisp who suffers from a degenerative muscular condition. She lives in a wheelchair or bed, is tied to a respirator at least eight hours a day, eats mostly through a tube and requires round-the-clock nursing care. Doctors have implanted steel rods in her back to stem the curvature of her spine...
...likely the same--and how it should work if Congress were crafting a law that treated all people equally, let's consider the story of two homeowners in bankruptcy. One is James Villa, a 42-year-old onetime stockbroker who lives in a $1.4 million home in Boca Raton, Fla. The other is Allen Smith, a 73-year-old retired autoworker with throat cancer who lives in a deteriorating $80,000 home in Wilmington...
...understand how much at odds with the real world the bankruptcy scene imagined by Congress and the lending industry is, spend a moment with the people who have a street-level view of the system. Steven Friedman, a bankruptcy judge in West Palm Beach, Fla., describes the people who pass through his courtroom as "average citizens who have worked hard to obtain a decent standard of living and, through unfortunate circumstances such as medical problems or financial or job loss, are down on their luck." He adds, "The instances of abuse, where people who file bankruptcy are attempting to defraud...
...minimum and can't hold up hit prime-time shows with demands for million-dollar raises. So it helped when TIGER WOODS, golf superstar, Nike spokesman--and Screen Actors Guild member--refused to cross the picket line to shoot a Nike commercial at the Isleworth Country Club in Orlando, Fla., his home course. Nike hopes to reschedule; Woods says he won't budge. Two days later, Boston Red Sox star shortstop Nomar Garciaparra canceled a Dunkin' Donuts shoot at Fenway, his home ballpark. And director John Waters would not cross the line in Brooklyn to appear in a commercial...
Harvard has thus far steered a prudent course, remaining affiliated with the FLA while the WRC worked through the complicated process of establishing itself as a functional and legitimate monitoring organization. However, the time has arrived for Harvard to take a new tack. We urge Harvard to withdraw its support for the FLA and join the 46 universities and numerous labor and human rights groups who have decided to back the WRC. Doing so while the WRC is still in its early stages will give Harvard the opportunity to help shape the organization's policies. Harvard would also send...