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...Living-Wage Campaign” at Harvard is like a Boston winter: you know it’s going to strike, but wonder only when and how hard. And last weekend—much like the Boston winter—it struck. And surely it won’t be long before throngs of students and Cambridge activists will march, chant, and protest outside the Holyoke Center and around Massachusetts Hall, believing that they are fighting an important battle in a larger war to achieve higher wages for Harvard’s lowest-paid workers.The campaign’s flaw...
...with the film. Abu-Assad withdrew, finishing the project in his native city of Nazareth. When Abu-Assad showed the film to a Palestinian audience in Ramallah in April, a fierce argument raged about its message; some said it portrayed an ugly Palestinian face to Westerners, while others were struck by its astute portrayal of West Bank life. Abu-Assad says the sharply divided opinions pleased him, confirming that he had avoided making a predictable propaganda film. "I did not make what they wanted me to make," he says. Critics are impressed, too. The film, which has been sold...
...April 2004, but then dropped back down to 346 in April 2005.Janitors in their first three years at Harvard were paid $11.35 per hour in May 2001, and that wage increased gradually to $13.50 per hour as of October 1, 2005 in compliance with an agreement struck with the SEIU Local 615, according to the same report.Continuing his analysis in an article that appeared alongside Freeman’s piece in Harvard Magazine that winter, Mankiw added that, with higher wages, a more skilled worker would be more likely to displace a less skilled worker...
...year-old white woman responding to the pitch-perfect words of my black brother Wynton Marsalis. In his Essay "Saving America's Soul Kitchen" [Sept. 19], he wrote, "We always back away from fixing our nation's racial problems. Not fixing the city's levees before Katrina struck will now cost us untold billions. Not resolving the nation's issues of race and class has and will cost us so much more." America, listen to those words or reap the consequences. If the cries of human suffering don't move us, perhaps enlightened self-interest and the bottom line will...
...Marsalis' essay struck a chord; in addition to his musical talents, he has amazing insight. Perhaps musicians share an understanding that easily transcends racial and class lines. Musicians seem to embrace the soul in one another, the soul of life. They appreciate something that treats race, gender and religion as being as incidental as the clothes we wear. Marsalis is right on the mark. Perhaps if enough people speak out, as he has, they might pierce the tone-deaf arrogance of the powerful. Peter Piaskoski Milwaukee...