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Epps, Jehn and McCarthy suggest that it is hard for anyone to make a “positive case against the reality that the world’s richest University can and must pay more than poverty wages to all its workers.” Except that this is basically the same rationale behind a mugger picking out the wealthiest-looking candidate on a street to rob, of course. Harvard University is not a charity, nor is it an arm of the federal government. It contracts with all of its employees to pay a certain wage. If the employee finds...
...case against the living wage,” she suspects what a broad consensus of workers, students, faculty and alumni have known for quite some time: opponents are hard-pressed to make “a positive case” against the reality that the world’s richest University can and must pay more than poverty wages to all its workers...
...tour this fall: Tell them everything about Harvard, down to the grittiest, most ugly detail. Certainly this would make the tour informative, but the Crimson Key would also weed out the most dreamy-eyed of applicants, who later become the students cantankerously wondering why the world’s richest university doesn’t serve them breakfast...
Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdel Aziz al Saud, who is sixth on the Forbes list of the world's richest people and has some $16 billion invested in such American companies as Citigroup ($9.65 billion), News Corp. ($1.1 billion), Apple ($314 million) and TIME's parent company, AOL Time Warner ($932 million), is known as one of the most ardent Arab supporters of the U.S. "It is my personal duty," he said before leaving Saudi Arabia for a trip to New York City, "to show my alliance and show the real face of the Arab, Islam...
...fact is there's going to be no grand mobilization for which we can sacrifice. It's not our parents' war, with its visible monsters, quantifiable victories and necessary sacrifices. The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop. Last week Republican Senator Jon Kyl proposed a "Travel America" tax credit to encourage us to check in to the Bellagio or go lie on the beach...