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...should remember that the price of fixing our neglect--of paying every worker at Harvard a living wage of at least $10--is about ten million dollars a year, hardly an insurmountable hurdle for our well-oiled fund raising machine. For many of us, this means the difference between salmon and chicken, open bar and cash bar, at alumni appreciation dinners. For workers, however, it might very well mean the difference between poverty and lives of genuine decency. Alumni ought to be mindful of this while celebrating our successes this weekend. More than that, however, we should seize this opportunity...
Without knowledge of other people and places in the world, we lack perspective on our own history and neglect the way that developments in other regions affects our own futures. America forfeits its claim as a leading democracy, concerned about the rights and welfare of its people, if it is not actively involved and supportive of efforts within the international community...
...fact, we underscore the wise advice Harvard University Police Department Sergeant James L. McCarthy dispensed immediately after the Matthews break-ins: lock your doors. Burglars have not yet taken to jimmying door locks because enough students neglect to secure their belongings by ensuring their doors are firmly, and permanently, shut behind them...
...make and keep the Times great is astounding. In almost voyeuristic detail, the ruling Times family emerges as a kind of textbook study of philandering, adultery, divorce and lousy parenting. The male heirs who got to run the paper arrived mostly either ill-prepared or suffering from the neglect of their familial predecessors...
There are many reasons grandparents parent again: child abuse, abandonment and neglect, divorce, teen pregnancy and parental incarceration, as well as death of a parent from illness, accident, suicide or murder. By far the most common reasons are parental abuse of drugs and alcohol--and, increasingly, aids. Factor into that the rising numbers of single-parent families and, says Herbert Stupp, commissioner of the New York City department for the aging, "the chances for any one child of being raised by someone other than [his or her] parent are higher than they used...