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...these days means living under constant scrutiny from industrialized nations anxious about money laundering and their tax revenues. In a globalized, Internet-connected world they worry that the flight of investment and savings to lower tax centers will accelerate. In recent years, the European Union, the Group of Seven richest nations, the International Monetary Fund, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and the British government have all looked into tax havens and tax regulation...
...have to enact a living wage—Harvard, and only Harvard, has ultimate control over internal matters such as its workers’ pay. And most of the time, Harvard does whatever it pleases. But as a supposedly nonprofit educational institution—and the richest, most visible and powerful one in the world at that—Harvard has the opportunity to genuinely take care of its workers in a way that companies in the free market usually cannot. By enacting a living wage, the University can begin to become an ideological leader once more, not just...
...living wage sit-in at Harvard (News, “PSLM Members Storm Mass. Hall,” April 19). These students are actually trying to address the issue of those who work full time and still live in poverty, in this case while employed by the richest university on the planet...
...Above all, there is the daunting challenge of the hemisphere's diversity, which brings together at the summit leaders from some of the world's poorest and smallest nations, as well as some of the most populous and richest, including the global superpower, in a search for common political, social and economic ground. They represent a potential clash of every conceivable kind of interest (except one, since nondemocratic Cuba is excluded), made more acute by the economic uncertainty. And as a carefully stage-managed event designed to cement pan-American solidarity, the Quebec City summit, like its predecessors in Miami...
Well, it is time that peacekeeping became an American “interest.” There is something unsavory about a country that is willing to send its soldiers to fight a war to stabilize oil prices, but not to protect an entire nation from annihilation. With the richest and most sophisticated military in the world, America has a moral duty to prevent human catastrophe when it can. We must not wait for another Rwanda or Kosovo to remind us of the importance of peacekeeping. It is time for America to create a permanent peacekeeping force and to become...