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...Music. His heirs and allies defend him as the redeeming visionary of the latter 20th century, a man who invited people to underestimate him because it served his purposes. As for the private man, he was portrayed as a cold, remote performance artist, and as a humane and generous soul; columnist James Reston called him "an authentic phony"; to George Will, he was "an open book who read himself to the country...
After many breathless months of stalled negotiations and strikes, the pact reached last Thursday by Yale and two striking labor unions will provide long overdue relief to a campus divided. The contract will give clerical, maintenance and dining hall workers generous raises over its eight year span—retroactive to the time the last contract expired—as well as increase pension payments for the workers...
This agreement does not mean that Yale’s labor woes are ended. One hundred forty dietary workers from Yale-New Haven Hospital are still without a contract. Yale needs to extend the same kind of generous contract agreement to these workers, and it needs to do so promptly. Yale president Richard C. Levin could use his influence to greatly expedite the process and get the dietary workers back...
...much too kind and generous a person...
Don’t hold your breath waiting for a meaningful prescription drug benefit for Americans on Medicare, despite the passage of bills by both houses of Congress that claim to create just that. It’s bad enough that even the more generous benefit passed by the Senate would be too small and hopelessly complicated to administer, and that the two bills may never be reconciled. That’s not the worst...