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Would Barbara Ehrenreich's satirical commentary about a toy company and child labor [ESSAY, Dec. 23] have a happier ending if multinational firms fired their child workers? Has Ehrenreich considered that the children are working not because they are forced to but for some other reason? In developing countries today, child income is necessary for a family's survival, as it was in the U.S. in the past. For my part, I find child labor a lesser evil than child starvation. ROBERT S. CARR Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan...
...soaring score by Kern or Gershwin; they all want to believe that there is an authentic possibility of romance when they visit Paris or Venice; they all hope for the kind of transformative musical epiphanies that would suddenly be vouchsafed Kelly or Astaire as they soft-shoed through their happier--or anyway more stylized--realities...
...Happier Faculties
Members of the FAS say they are happier with the new model for information technology at Harvard...
...Wired Ventures must go hat in hand to private investors for capital to further extend the Wired brand name into new magazines, TV shows, books and online publishing. A Wired friend says Louis "thrives on being told something's impossible. The more you tell him it's doomed, the happier he gets because he knows it will happen...