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...Boston. Even this lower figure is too high. Dining hall staff will renegotiate their contract this spring. Right now, their wages are far lower than the wages paid to janitors. If janitors are granted $17 an hour, then why should dining hall employees demand anything less? This is the flaw inherent in the concept of a living wage. It calculates the money necessary to support a decent lifestyle independent of the nature of the actual work being done, and independent of the compensation that the labor market demands. In practice, if Harvard were to grant a living wage, it would...
...That image of Lincoln is historically accurate, according to Joshua Wolf Shenk ’93, author of the new book “Lincoln’s Melancholy.” But Shenk argues that, instead of being a tragic flaw, the Great Emancipator’s depression was a key source of his success...
...long before throngs of students and Cambridge activists will march, chant, and protest outside the Holyoke Center and around Massachusetts Hall, believing that they are fighting an important battle in a larger war to achieve higher wages for Harvard’s lowest-paid workers.The campaign’s flaw, however, lies in the consequences that follow should it ever become successful. Its flaw is not simply the substitution effect—the economic consequence of shifting labor demand curves—or anything else that we may have learned in Ec10. Rather, if the living-wage campaign were successful...
...accessory for this multitasking generation. However, the pretentious name of the pen, the “Senator,” and the condescending instructions telling us to “twist” to open the pen, hurts its overall score. The pen’s most glaring design flaw is the cap for the highlighter. In pressing down on the cap, the pen tip comes out on the other end, which caused one of us to stab himself and bleed an astonishing amount of blood for so small a wound. We hope this model is just a prototype...
From a Harvard standpoint, Wally’s sole flaw is its location way over in South Boston. It’s near the Symphony T stop, though, and the music gets cooking as early as 9 p.m., so the subway-bound can still get plenty of grooving in before their coach turns into a pumpkin. Sunday afternoons have an added bonus: a 4-7 p.m. sit-in jam session, open to anyone...