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...decision to seemingly fire Hickey might make sense if Harvard had slipped a point on NASDAQ. But Harvard is a "non-profit" corporation and, as such, cannot offer stock. Harvard has the means to continue paying for Hickey's employment without batting an eye. It should reward a worker like Hickey, not punish him for being loyal. And it certainly shouldn't bemoan its own poverty as justification for spurning Hickey and his peers...
...McCain and Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold have been hollering in the wilderness for two years, trying to persuade their fellow Senators to clean up the system. They would ban the unlimited soft-money contributions that both parties depend on (more than $250 million, a historic record, last year) and reward candidates who abide by voluntary spending limits...
Arnold said WhoDB helped him ensure that major donors were accorded a fair share of presidential perks, a reward system of Lincoln Bedroom sleepovers, foreign trips and government postings that helped the party hit a D.N.C. fund-raising record of $125 million last year. Included in the database was a special category for recipients of Kennedy Center tickets, personal notes from Clinton, D.N.C. trinkets and invitations to play tennis, bowl or watch a movie at the White House. "I've never felt deserted," Kaye said with understatement...
Invoking the legacies of Aristotle and Shakespeare, Lee implored students to work in a bipartisan spirit. "Our philosophy is that we have faith.... It's the hope that we may, hopefully, inspire future statesmen to greatness and create an electorate that can and does reward such greatness...
...there was a lot to reward a scrappy faith in human persistence. Amid a flotilla of alien invasions, The English Patient brought David Lean-like scope and passion back to the Cineplex. Still laboring under Khomeini's fatwa, Salman Rushdie produced what may be his greatest novel. A rock update of La Boheme brought the Broadway musical resoundingly into the '90s. The Fugees proved you can sell millions of rap records without gangsta's toxicity, while Tiger Woods broadened golf's horizons simply by showing up. And Jerry Seinfeld stayed funny, defying sitcomic entropy. So here...