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...core recommendations” of the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies, including a significant one-time wage increase and the principle of wage parity for outsourced and in-house workers. In addition to major concrete gains for workers, the decision contained an important revelation. After all that fuss in and around Mass. Hall last spring, it turns out that the administration essentially agrees with what everyone else figured out long ago: workers should be paid more. “It is important to recognize that all who work at Harvard, regardless of rank or position, contribute in vital...
...fuss over the status and treatment of the 158 Taliban and Al Qaeda prisoners held at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo cuts to the heart of European skepticism over President Bush's "you're either with us or against us" mantra. What it shows is that even allies have their limits, and even a nation as strong as the U.S. needs friends...
Many Palestinians fail to see what all the fuss over the guns is about. "I don't see why the Palestinians are being so defensive about it," says Ghassan Khatib, a leading Palestinian political analyst. "It's a war. Why is everybody entitled to defend themselves except us?" Certainly there are parallels between the arms smuggling by Palestinians today and similar efforts in the 1930s and 1940s by Jewish leaders in Palestine who were struggling against British occupiers. Those operations are regarded as heroic in Israel. The difference, Israelis argue, is that they are supposed to be in a peace...
...hard to imagine a more cynical marketing ploy than the one Pantheon Books devised for Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy's new work, which arrived in bookstores last week. In the transparent hope of stirring up a publicity-grabbing fuss, it gave the book a one-word title that happens to be the most odious racial slur in the English language. The scheme has already produced the desired effect, triggering a string of giddy newspaper articles. Among them: a New York Times profile in which Kennedy's editor, Erroll McDonald, gushed that his motive wasn't to boost sales...
...Many Palestinians fail to see what all the fuss over the guns is about. "I don't see why the Palestinians are being so defensive about it," says Ghassan Khatib, a leading Palestinian political analyst. "It's a war. Why is everybody entitled to defend themselves except us?" Certainly there are parallels between the arms smuggling by Palestinians today and similar efforts in the 1930s and 1940s by Jewish leaders in Palestine who were struggling against British occupiers. Those operations are regarded as heroic in Israel. The difference, Israelis argue, is that they are supposed to be in a peace...