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Harvard will finally boost the pay of their general fund managers, after realizing they are, in fact, underpaid according to market averages. For complaining alumni, look for gift subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal, courtesy of Larry Summers...
...fashioned way. He also suffers from a severe 40-year John F. Kennedy hangover. He has a weakness for "ask not" rhetorical switchbacks: "Right now, most Americans are working for the economy. We need an economy that is working for Americans." This flourish can be deconstructed--working people are underpaid and don't receive sufficient benefits (health, education, pension) from the world's most powerful economy--but the language is abstract and overly fancy. It creates a distance between the candidate and the audience, as does Kerry's frequent use of "and I say to you" and "and you know...
...Unless Rowland's North Carolina workers suddenly become competitive with Chinese counterparts who earn just a few dollars a day, he fears his employees will be next. The plainspoken Southerner ticks off what he regards as China's unfair advantages: excessive government protection, an underpriced currency, cowed and underpaid workers, exports dumped below cost. If Washington won't help, Rowland says, he will have to move some jobs overseas. The new quotas slapped on some Chinese textiles last month, he contends, aren't enough. "Our government has done nothing," says Rowland, "just a little bit of hand slapping...
...ample classrooms - is designed to facilitate both teaching and research, is as foreign to most French universities as a slice of foie gras is to a Weight Watchers' meeting. Instead, what we have in France - often in the name of democracy and equality of opportunity - are overcrowded classrooms, underpaid professors, faculty offices shared by as many as eight to 10 instructors, a system so mired in bureaucracy it requires a series of secretaries, forms, rubber stamps and stops at several offices merely to get some photocopies made. Yes, this system may be more "democratic" - but democratic in the sense that...
Last year, HLS instituted pro-bono or underpaid legal service requirements for students, in an effort to have students give something back to the community...