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They ended the sit-in last spring to the promise of a new committee charged to examine the University’s labor policies. The Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP), headed Professor of Economics Lawrence F. Katz, met by confidential sessions through the fall, gathering data and hearing testimony...
...Meanwhile, retail sales in Japan have momentarily stopped declining. This week, the country's gdp figures from the initial quarter are expected to show growth for the first time since January-March 2001. "The evidence is pretty clear that [the economy] has bottomed out," says a usually bearish Richard Katz, editor of The Oriental Economist newsletter...
MALEVOLENT: (while starting a nuclear war) No! Those rotten do-gooders on the Katz Committee made us promise to pay you a wage between $10.83 and $11.30, so stop whining about our $11.00 deal. Even PSLM-types can’t complain that we aren’t offering a living wage...
...repercussions won’t be the same. (Come, come—does anyone buy the pat explanation that this doesn’t have anything to do with PSLM?) In the wake of a continuing movement for higher wages, despite Summers’ general acceptance of the Katz Committee’s wage recommendations for the University, the atmosphere was just starting to look ripe for Occupation: The Sequel...
Nevertheless, ubiquitous PSLMer cum Katz Committee member Benjamin L. McKean ’02 doesn’t seem to appreciate the heads-up from Summers. McKean dubbed the addition “outrageous.” What’s McKean’s beef? He told a Crimson reporter that he thought the whole community should have been consulted before the deans’ council added the “interpretation...