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...riches I have squandered. spread with honey].” While its inciting subject is the parable of the prodigal son from the gospel of Luke, it’s overlaid with facts I actually lived, like living in a rickety squat with roaches and eating government surplus cheese...
...have been growing at unprecedented rates, reaching a peak of $19.1 billion last year. Can Harvard afford a living wage? Consult the data: Harvard’s fiscal income for the year 2000 was $2.02 billion. Its expenses that year totaled $1.90 billion. When confronted with an annual operating surplus of $120 million, arguments about Harvard’s financial incapacity to pay a living wage ring hollow...
...University of Michigan decided to sponsor two new varsity sports with surplus revenues from football tickets. It had to choose between men’s soccer, women’s water polo, women’s lacrosse and women’s ice hockey. It went with soccer and water polo...
Gilmore, a former paratrooper who has fed his jail inmates surplus army rations, is a man of action. So on the afternoon of Oct. 19, he and the hospital sent a Hamilton patrol car to pick up 18,000 Cipro pills from a supplier in south Jersey. It arrived back in Hamilton just as a news conference was being held to announce another case of anthrax. Knowing that the local hospital now had a stash on hand, Gilmore stepped to the microphone and told workers they could get free treatment in his township. Some 1,500 postal workers have since...
...argument that is appealing to many—even to those who object to manufacturing embryos strictly for research purposes—is that surplus embryos, which will either die or remain frozen indefinitely, could serve humanity better if used to cure disease. Harvesting organs from a death row inmate is an analogous case. If this person, also permanently outside of society, can serve humanity better by offering future medical benefits, what stands in our way of advancing such a policy? Furthermore, does this person not owe such a debt to society for his crime? If our moral sensibilities rebel...