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California unions turned out tens of thousands of voters in the election, helping spur a Democratic triumph. Now they are calling in the chits to promote "a living wage" for low-income service workers. A new Los Angeles ordinance requires firms doing business with the city to pay $7.39 an hour with benefits or $8.64 without -- higher than the state minimum of $5.75. Now, in an effort that may be duplicated in other cities, pro-labor officials are refusing subsidies to developers who want to build big projects, including the Staples sports arena and a Hollywood theater-and-hotel complex...
...marriage isn't necessarily a fearsome decision. It's a choice, like so many young people make--not simply a spur of the moment decision, but a part of a long process we all know to be a relationship. And marriage is not a choice for everyone. I do not believe in pushing anyone into it. Marriage is not just about the wedding; it's about living every day not only for yourself but for someone else. I think that the average Harvard senior out there might not be ready for such a responsibility. YEMIL M. MARTINEZ...
...Frito-Lay aid package at more than $10 million. And that is in addition to $104.7 million in industrial-development revenue bonds issued by the city of Jonesboro to build and equip the potato-chip plant. The other incentives include the 140-acre plant site, a rail spur, road improvements, a construction grant, tax credits for new employees and a 20% discount on sewer bills for the next 15 years. That sewage-treatment plant, by the way, cost $7 million and is large enough to accommodate a second city the size of Jonesboro (pop. 50,000). So for each...
Maybe the critics are right. Maybe what animated us back then was less the spirit of exploration than the spur of nationalism. Maybe it was all about beating the Russians. How else to explain how we've been content to go around in circles--literally, around and around in low-earth orbit--for the past quarter-century...
Darling said he had not planned to enter the race for treasurer, in which he also ran against Michael E. Thakur '01 and Steve W. Chung '01, but decided on the spur of the moment...