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...there are many parallels between the events in revolutionary France and the madhouse. “There is this feeling of ‘What have I done to deserve this? Why me?’” she says. In both situations, the victims—the poor and the mad, respectively—feel unfairly punished. With this injustice comes desperation, and it is desperation, Gummerson says, that can bring people to the terrifying violence that marked the revolution...
...broader point is that how a society decides to order itself matters too. Advanced capitalist countries like Denmark and Norway have vastly smaller differences between their rich and poor citizens compared with the U.S. That arises not from a different sort of economy but from a different attitude toward taxation and how much wealth should be redistributed...
...comes with ideas about social class that people want to hide from on all different levels,” says Dorm Crew captain Jack Cen ’11. “There are poor and rich students who wouldn’t want to do it for the same reasons...
...spending would ensure that, no matter the state of boom or bust in the markets, key Harvard initiatives, whose progresses have an uncommonly significant effect on the community, will not be stalled in a manner that is unduly harmful to community residents. We can see the effects of poor financial planning simply by observing the pernicious effects of our stymied science-complex initiative, where plot vacancies and rodent infestations reveal the real implications of a stalled and invasive construction project. Arguments that the economic downturn affects Harvard just like any corporation or institution or that they were pressured to spend...
...Korean university students, the movies' biggest audience, and smugglers at the Chinese border, charging some with promoting the ideology of the enemy state. "The government is terrified of the ideas North Koreans are getting about the outside world," Myung says. "The people are starting to ask, 'Why are we poor?' And they point to South Korea...