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...Katrina and its aftermath demonstrate our misplaced priorities: cutting taxes for the rich instead of shoring up infrastructure and maximizing corporate profits at the expense of the environment. A nation that abandons its poorest, weakest citizens to the vagaries of a glorified free market shouldn't call itself civilized. Betsy Rim Phoenix, Arizona...
...Half of our proceeds will benefit Chinatown, which is the second-poorest neighborhood in Boston,” said Jimmy Zhao ’08, one of the cultural co-chairs of the AAA. “The money will be going to the Chinatown After-School program, run by the Phillips Brooks House Association...
...you’re reading this, chances are that you (like me) are part of the richest fifth of the world’s people who consume 86 percent of the world’s goods and services. (The poorest fifth consumes just 1.3 percent.) Our current lifestyle is simply not compatible with African development. To paraphrase Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen, who is also a Nobel Prize-winning economist, the problem of poverty is not one of resources, but of their allocation. There needs to be a reallocation and prioritization of the world’s resources?...
...choices ahead. I pray that we make the right ones. Jane LaBreche Hebert Friendswood, Texas, U.S. Katrina and its aftermath demonstrate our misplaced priorities: cutting taxes for the rich instead of shoring up infrastructure and maximizing corporate profits at the expense of the environment. A nation that abandons its poorest, weakest citizens to the vagaries of a glorified free market shouldn't call itself civilized. Betsy Rim Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. Sharon's Gaza Gambit Your verbatim item quoted a statement by former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Ariel Sharon's leadership [Sept. 12]: " Sharon gave and gave and gave...
What are you doing here?” a woman had asked them weeks earlier, when they visited the country’s poorest town, an Indian reservation in South Dakota with a monument to the Battle at Wounded Knee. “We’re here to pay our respects,” they said...