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...fighting for a reasonable hourly rate of pay, as defined by the City of Cambridge, but implicit in its message is a call to treat those who cook our meals, clean our floors and wash our dishes with respect. This respect can take many forms and is all too often absent. It's in things as simple as politely greeting the employee who swipes our cards at meals as well as in refraining from adorning the Quincy House elevator with frozen yogurt, as someone felt the need to do last week...
...power to remote villages. In 1994 he ordered the CIA to find out why countries fall apart. After feeding 2 million facts and figures from about 113 instances of national collapse into its computers, the intelligence agency came up with a startling answer: new democracies tend to fail most often when they have a high infant-mortality rate. Clinton's National Security Council quickly found itself boning up on prenatal care...
...push mental-health reform. If it didn't have the look and feel of a campaign rollout, it certainly had the desired effect. Her depression admission--and the simple fact that she talks like a mom and not like a pol--added a human dimension to a campaign that often doesn't seem to have...
...personal strengths make possible the enlarging of the Treasury Secretary's mission? The former Goldman Sachs partner spent years as head of the firm's arbitrage desk, a position in which he had to make billion-dollar bets based on inadequate information, the kind of predicament that he says often confronts public officials. To him, the decision-making process should focus on probabilities rather than the absolute nature of any choice. "It's not that results don't matter," he says. "But judging solely on results is a serious deterrent to taking the risks that may be necessary to making...
Societal respect, although important, only goes so far. Money goes further. I have often told other Harvard students about my volunteer teaching endeavors or my desire to become a public school teacher, and received the response of: "Gee, I'd love to teach but I have to pay off my student loans," or, perhaps more bluntly: "Yeah, I'd like to teach, but I actually want to make some money." When it costs over $32,000 per year to go to Harvard, the average starting salary of a teacher in Massachusetts with a bachelor's degree...