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Poverty at this University might not be so shameful if it were not so needless. We attend the richest university on the planet. Harvard fund managers take home up to $10 million a year--that's 800 times as much as our subcontracted dining hall worker makes working two full-time jobs. Harvard's annual budget exceeds that of the United Nations by about half a billion dollars...

Author: By Amy C. Offner, | Title: The Numbers Tell a Grim Story | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...course there are plenty of Third World trade unionists on board, although they don't see eye to eye with their American cousins when it comes to tariff protections. And needless to say, the governments of developing countries are hostile to having First World labor standards applied in their countries, which they see as a device to eliminate their competitive advantages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story Behind the Washington Protests | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

...remarkable performances earned him the attention of a former pro handball player named Charlie Hillil. Needless to say, Hillil was impressed by Letteri's abilities and offered to become his coach...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard's Hot Hand Sizzles | 4/12/2000 | See Source »

...perhaps the most anachronistic moment of the movie, the Skulls who, needless to say are all male, are on an isolated island at a decadent cocktail party. The absence of any female presence has begun to strike the audience when a crowd of gorgeous young women, dressed to the nines, parades in. None of the women say anything of import--they were simply shipped in as sex objects for the entertainment of these "leaders of the future." Remind anyone of the last final club party they were...

Author: By Allison A. Melia, | Title: Burying the Skulls | 4/11/2000 | See Source »

...Criss-Cross Crash Set. It was probably the same look I gave them when they took a perfectly good set of wooden building blocks and used them to make a day-care center rather than, say, a castle or a fort or a killer-gladiator death-match megahurt arena. Needless to say, I have yet to follow up with the awesome Hot Wheels Crashers 2 Backwoods Bomb Truck. I mean, why set myself up for that kind of disappointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girl and Boy Toys | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

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