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Dates: during 2001-2001
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Smith said he expects the issue??which he regrets was not taken care of last month—to be sorted out at today’s meeting...
Hoxby does not use the phrase, but it’s everywhere implied in her editorial. Opponents of the living wage—despite their considerable lack of public engagement with this issue??have been “demonized”; expression for them is a “punishing” affair. The disdain for free speech goes even deeper, Hoxby asserts: a faculty member on the committee allegedly “argued that Harvard students should not be allowed to express their views.” Furthermore, according to her logic, those on the committee...
They certainly do not draw our attention to an unexamined issue??it was all too clear that bin Laden’s spectre was all around us on Friday when the audience collectively flinched as several planes (didn’t they seem particularly noisy?) flew low overhead during the speech. Nor have they complicated our understanding of Sept. 11—Bush’s subtle diction need only remind us of the sort of rhetoric we hear today...
Today, one of my post-White House jobs is being Director of the Universal Education Forum at the Brookings Institution, a project that focuses on achieving universal education in the world’s poorest nations by 2015. On this issue??as with AIDS and infectious diseases—Larry was one of the early messengers of the view that such previously considered social issues must now become the focus of those concerned with larger economic growth policies. As Chief Economist of the World Bank nearly a decade ago— in a speech that is still quoted...
...compromise—the formation of a joint student-staff committee to study the wage issue??has left Summers to make the final decision on Harvard’s wages...