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Even more to their credit, they have chosen a truly worthy cause. In fact, this issue should be a no-brainer for Harvard students on all ends of the political spectrum. It really isn't a political issue at all. There are no calls for government intervention here, no specter of increased economic regulation. All the Campaign is asking is that Harvard make the free choice to pay its employees enough money to live in Cambridge. Even those so dogmatically laissez-faire that they don't support a federally mandated minimum wage can support a living wage for Harvard workers...
...immediate challenge for LVMH will be to squeeze more revenue out of its new, high-priced brands while retaining the luxe quality for which those brands are renowned. The specter of overlicensing haunts the fashion industry today, just as it did in the 1970s, when designers Pierre Cardin and Yves Saint Laurent weren't paying attention to where their names appeared and let their logos turn up everywhere, from discount pharmacies to five-and-tens...
This week, Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who has called stem cells "a veritable fountain of youth," will convene a hearing on Capitol Hill to review both the science and the ethics of the research. "Finally there is a very possible solution to conquering diseases that were always thought incurable," says actor Christopher Reeve, who has been paralyzed since his spinal cord was crushed in a fall from a horse in 1995, and who, along with former Senator Bob Dole and others, is scheduled to testify. "This research should go forward as fast as possible," Reeve says (see his accompanying...
...globe is more than an aesthetic problem. Human sprawl threatens the habitat of most animal and plant species--except for cockroaches, rats, pigeons, crabgrass and other organisms that thrive with mankind. Relentless human expansion is the main reason the world is fast losing its biodiversity, raising the specter that we will eventually live, in the words of writer David Quammen, on a "planet of weeds." If that danger doesn't seem imminent, consider this: sprawl is paving over the land we need to grow our food. Since 1981 the amount of land around the world devoted to raising grain...
Incoming first-years arrive on campus with the specter of choosing a concentration in seven months already beginning to haunt them...