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...stay out of poverty. In a May 1996 speech in New Orleans, Summers—then deputy treasury secretary—told his audience that a raise in the wage was necessary to ensure that “while America competes better and enjoys greater prosperity, no Americans slip through the cracks.” These standards apply even more stringently to Harvard. The University is a non-profit that invests in its community, and as the Harvard community has overwhelmingly recognized, it owes its workers for their labor a decent standard of living...
Under a sullen sky, Donna Blair, 54, dabbed tears and watched her $6.8 million vacation condo slip into the sea. Not that she was upset. "It's amazing," she said, a glass of champagne in her hand. "It's different from any of the other homes we own, that's for sure!" Donna and husband Jim, 56, had come from San Jose, Calif., to Landskrona, Sweden, to watch The World of ResidenSea, the world's first luxury condominium cruise ship, sail for Norway, where it would be painted and outfitted with a shipbuilder's equivalent of a Barguzin sable coat...
...contraction, it is a parable on how to equitably fire people. Don't base it on personal factors. Measure performance objectively. And what is Robinson but the game-show equivalent of the joyless mouthpieces employers have to do their hatcheting for them? You might not want Robinson to pink-slip you. But at least you would know the next guy will get it just as bad. Nothing personal at all. Goodbye...
...James Hutchinson on dobro and bass, Altan gives its take on this 35-year-old Bob Dylan piece which was in turn partly inspired by a traditional song. Track seven packs all the clichés into the overlong title “Gusty’s Frolicks/Con Slip Jig/The Pretty Young Girls of Carrick/The Humours of Whiskey.” After Riverdance, Guinness and Southie, Ireland often seems in danger of becoming a mere caricature in American culture. Fortunately, Altan’s delightful interpretation of these jigs erases any such thoughts, leaving behind naught but the memory...
...intelligence abysmally off the mark. The idea was that between 1,400 and 1,500 Cuban exiles bolstered by U.S. training and equipment would march triumphantly from the Bay of Pigs into Havana where the people would rise against Castro. If that did not happen, the force was to slip into the mountains and launch guerrilla warfare. Instead they were captured by Cuba's 20,000 troops, leaving Castro to stand even taller astride his small world...