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...participants were asked to answer a standard questionnaire that measured optimistic tendencies based on responses to statements like "In uncertain times, I expect the worst." Those scoring highest in optimism on this scale were more likely to be alive eight years later, while those with the lowest, most pessimistic scores were more likely to have died from any cause, including heart disease and cancer...
Schöllgen shows that Davistan, which had 800 workers, also employed forced laborers. Although he is uncertain how many slaves worked for Davistan, Schöllgen says he believes the number was small. In 1943, Davistan also began producing armaments for the Nazis such as antitank weapons and aerial bombs. Schaeffler and his younger brother Georg, who would marry Maria-Elisabeth in 1964, fled Kietrz in 1945 as the Red Army advanced. Wilhelm was arrested by U.S. forces and served more than four years in Polish prisons after the war. (Schöllgen points out that none of the current allegations were...
...must expect to make sacrifices during these uncertain times, but it is particularly troubling that Harvard has identified outsourced custodians as its first superfluous expense. By targeting the lowest-paid, least-valued, and mostly immigrant workers at this university, Harvard sends a clear message that some members of our community are more expendable than the next. Service employees made sacrifices so their families could live better in even the best of economies. They saw no perks or benefits, even when the endowment grew at astronomical rates. Yet they are the first to suffer now that university budgets are in crisis...
...students, we should stand in solidarity with workers in these difficult and uncertain times. We must express to the Harvard administration that we are willing to make sacrifices so our friends can keep their jobs. Harvard’s educational mission should not only be an intellectual one, but also a moral one, that teaches us to put people over profits and value all members of our campus, whether they are using the classrooms or cleaning them. The strength of Harvard comes not from the rate of its endowment growth, but in the community of people that comprise...
...Such students do not want to work in a field where in-house opportunities for career advancement are so uncertain. No matter how passionately we feel about public service, dismal-looking advancement opportunities packaged with lower salaries and a lack of immediate prestige make this field a difficult choice. No number of info sessions by OCS or heartfelt appeals from the commencement dais will change this...