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...live beyond her means. Yet this symbiotic economic relationship has, until recently, only made the headlines when it’s a matter of defective toys and toxic foodstuffs. Although at earlier points in our history we woefully mistreated African Americans and Native Americans, we lecture China about its treatment of Tibet and sell arms to what the Chinese regard as a “break-away” province, Taiwan. We compete with China for natural resources and influence in the developing world. Now, the only reliable component of the equation, economic interdependence, is threatened by the global credit...
...such policy is the Wage and Benefit Parity Policy that guarantees outsourced workers the same compensation and treatment as those employees hired directly by Harvard. The policy purports that outsourcing is used “to increase quality and spark innovation, not to adversely affect the wages and benefits of Harvard’s own service employees.” Despite Harvard’s reluctance to hire in-house, the Parity Policy has been an important and laudable effort by Harvard to express its commitment to workers’ rights for all employees on campus regardless of who signs...
Harvard constantly tries to improve the mental health of its students, offering everything from mental-health weeks to relaxation classes to massage study breaks. It is neglecting, however, the most simple, rational, and cost-efficient treatment of all—time off from school. One can sadly only guess at what the Harvard student body’s brainpower could do given freedom in the winter wonderlands Cambridge skies cook up for them. Snow forts with n+1 housing? Intramural snowball fights at an A, B, and C level? All of these questions go unanswered when the Severs and Biolabs...
...morning, Baucus predicted that his committee could have legislation on the Senate floor as early as June, adding, "The conversation is going great guns." Among the ideas the six-term Montana Senator said he is willing to consider is one that has significant support among Republicans: changing the tax treatment of employer-provided health benefits, so that they might not be fully deductible for companies that provide them, and would be treated as income for the workers who receive them. Health-care experts say this would have the effect of encouraging more people to buy their insurance individually, rather than...
...added that he regularly speaks by phone with Senator Edward M. Kennedy - who in his capacity as head of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has been working on the issue at a distance as he undergoes treatment for brain cancer - and has been meeting with some of the key players in the House, including Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Henry Waxman and Ways and Means chairman Charlie Rangel...