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Workers at the University say that neither viewpoint completely reflects their experience. Harvard is an unquestioned leader when it comes to fringe benefits: in addition to its tuition assistance, it offers easy access to health insurance and free English courses on paid time. And in the wake of the Living Wage campaign, it’s keeping pace on lower-end salaries. But the concerns raised by PSLM remain salient for many of Harvard’s unionized employees, who fear losing their jobs to outsourced competition. Others complain that Harvard leaves them out to dry in the summer, when...
Azzam Tamimi, director of London's Institute of Islamic and Political Thought, suggested that America should be careful to capture bin Laden alive [VIEWPOINT, March 17]. Such advice is offensive. Whether he is captured dead or alive is the decision of bin Laden, not the U.S. It was bin Laden, the son of a wealthy father, who chose to murder innocent people. Do not insult his poor followers by suggesting he is one of them. Absolutely not. He is educated. He had opportunities and privileges that most of them will never be offered. He made his own decision. Bin Laden...
...Many viral outbreaks tend to burn out, as a population naturally develops immunity to the particular pathogens. But a virus can also be devastating, as was in the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918-19 (see viewpoint). Although that flu's mortality rate was only 2%, the virus had infected so many people that it felled 40 million victims in 18 months?more than the total death toll from combat in World War I. So far, SARS' fatality rate is 4%, comparable to normal, noncontagious pneumonia's. Optimists point out that in the three weeks that SARS has gripped Hong Kong...
...slanted viewpoint presented in the television media is not only the fault of the reporters. Anthony Swofford, a Marine-turned-writer who served in the 1991 Gulf War reflected about his unit’s treatment of journalists. “Reporters visited my platoon and were treated to exactly what we’d been ordered to offer: smiling faces, bare, muscular chests and high levels of support for the coming war. We were ordered not to divulge our fears, our concerns about being uninformed about the long-term intentions of our mission...
...This War Would Not Be Moral" [VIEWPOINT, March 3], Duke theologian Stanley Hauerwas asserted that by describing Saddam as evil, Bush "gives this war a religious justification." But religion has nothing to do with legitimizing this war. Saddam's immoral behavior provides the basis for action. He has used poison gas on the Kurds, supplied money to suicide bombers and built lavish homes for himself--all while Iraqis starve. These actions are evil and alone provide more than enough moral justification for war. Going to war is never the first option, but when all others have been exhausted...