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...work harder and longer for no additional pay. But what would employees get without extra money? Food at the supermarket? Gas at the pumps? Part of their mortgage? When corporations are in trouble, top management should be held responsible, including highly paid executives. A salary cut would surely not hurt them. It is true that Europeans have the benefit of a social-welfare system, and it is abused by some lazy people. But for generations, workers have been fighting for better lives. We want fathers and mothers to be home at night to have a meal with the family...
...Katrina). And Harvard should lend its resources to displaced members of academia (like Loyola and Tulane students) as well. With these contributions, Harvard is already making a statement, loud and clear, that it is part of the national and the international community. Any extra money on the side will hurt Harvard more than it will help those in need.It is impossible to defeat every counterargument to my proposal without seeming heartless. Every student, including me, would forfeit $3 million for a pub in Loker Commons to save five thousand lives in Niger, if it were that simple. The point, however...
...opponent’s fans were chanting slogans like, “Pillage the village, rape the women!”It is inevitable that, with a team name like the “Fighting Sioux,” opponents and spectators will say or do something that may hurt an actual Dakota/Lakota person who is watching—and in the passion of the moment, it can be difficult to differentiate between literal language and fun in the name of sports. But these displays made a mockery of our traditions. In our culture, eagle feathers are sacred, and they...
...rest of New Mexico, which had the 13th best job growth record in the nation. More importantly, the hospitality industry, arguably the most affected by the living wage law, had 3.2 percent job growth, a truly impressive figure by national standards. Not only did the living wage law not hurt Santa Fe’s economy, it succeeded in pulling Santa Fe’s workers out of poverty, just as it was intended to do. Welfare applications in Santa Fe went down 9.7 percent in the last year. That’s compared to a drop of just...
...unfavorable conditions. “We did that purposely,” Murphy said. “We got as muddy as we could and we just slopped it up for two days.” PASS THE BUCK A week after Lafayette tailback Jonathan Hurt won Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week honors with a 149-yard, two-touchdown performance, the Crimson defense held him to just nine yards on five carries. The Leopards, who averaged 170.5 rushing yards per game heading into Saturday’s contest, were limited to 43 yards on the ground and suffered...