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Labor Secretary Robert Reich attacked GOP leaders who oppose President Clinton''s plan to raise the minimum wage, calling them "Robin Hood on rewind: they take from the poor and give to the rich." Clinton wants to raise the wage by 90 cents over a two-year period, from $4.25 to $5.15. Reich pointed out at a press conference today that the last time the minimum wage was raised, in 1991, both Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich supported the idea...
...story is the same. Dr. Peter Reich '52, chief of psychiatry at the MIT medical department, says about eight percent of MIT under-graduates are seen each year for mental health concerns. "In at least one half of the students, depression is an important component of their presentation or complaint," he says...
...other troubling question is, Who pays? ``Businesses don't simply absorb increased wage costs,'' says Rob Shapiro, whom Labor Secretary Robert Reich tried hard (and unsuccessfully) to enlist as a supporter of the raise because, as a top Clinton campaign adviser, it was Shapiro who once convinced Clinton that hiking the wage was counterproductive. ``They pass them on in the form of higher prices, which are regressive because they're borne equally by all. Thus the vast majority of the 39 million poor Americans who won't benefit from a raise will be worse off, while a very...
...that, Malachi's prophecy is coming true. Fifty years ago last week, the Soviets opened the gates of Auschwitz, the Third Reich's most heinously efficient death camp, and discovered the full horror of Hitler's Final Solution. Yet today Jewish identity in Central Europe is taking root in the very soil on which the vast majority of the 6 million perished. The young are discovering their Jewish heritage. And they, in confirmation of the prophecy, are bringing Judaism back to the parents whose faith had been so ruthlessly stamped out by one dictatorship after another for a half-century...
When it comes to backbiting and ridicule, the pair easily keep pace with their literary friends. McCarthy finds Charles Reich (The Greening of America) "smarmily loving" and feminist Germaine Greer "an absurd Australian giantess." Not to be outdone, Arendt declares Margaret Mead "a monster" and Vladimir Nabokov "an intelligent show-off." Her 1957 take on Norman Podhoretz, critic, editor and later author of the confessional memoir Making It: "one of these bright youngsters with bright hopes for a nice career." Only three years later, it is "little Podhoretz, already soooo 'tired' like the proverbial Jewish waiter...