Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Romeo, 23, stops mopping the dining hall floor and looks at me. "Mira," he says. "I have seven people in my family. I have bills, rent, insurance. Not even two full time jobs at this salary would be enough...
...Romeo is from EI Salvador and lives in Chelsea. He also works for Harvard, but Harvard denies this because technically a subcontractor hired him and Harvard hired only the subcontractor. Still, if you peek into the dining hall late at night, it is Romeo who cleans and sweeps and buffs the floor...
...senior on Dorm Crew, does virtually identical work. Except Tim started at a wage higher than what Romeo gets paid even after two years. Tim also gets a raise every semester, so his income is now $9.55 an hour...
...Romeo is no exception. Over 1,000 workers who clean and cook and guard and serve at Harvard earn less than their student counterparts, despite seniority. Dishwashers paying for medicine, groceries and baby formula are making less then students looking for beer and book money. Sixty-year-old janitors for whom sanitation is a career are making less than 18-year-olds for whom Dorm Crew will appear under "other activities" on their resumes at best...
...Sandy comes with strong responses to the material," notes John Madden, director of Shakespeare in Love, which speculates fancifully about the Bard's inspiration for Romeo and Juliet. "She comes armed with instinct." Among Madden's favorite creations for the film were the costumes she made for the staged production of Romeo and Juliet. He loved the way in which the lavishness of the players' dress contrasted with the shabby browns worn by the commoners in the audience. "At first we thought it looked bizarre," says Madden, "but what was so brilliant was how she captured in costume how extraordinarily...