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...Meanwhile, the North's ability to wage nuclear war may be growing, thereby increasing the ransom?food and fuel to prop up Kim's ailing economy?that he's expected to demand as the price of nuclear disarmament. North Korea recently shut down its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, raising concerns that it might be harvesting up to 8,000 spent plutonium fuel rods that could be used to build as many as six atomic bombs. Equally troubling, the director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby, testified in Congress last week that the North may now be capable...
Admittedly, this technique of protesting is new and radical for Harvard, particularly Harvard post-Living Wage sit-in. But the concept of a political endeavor that has a direct effect and also uses creativity should be praised, honed to perfection, and used again...
April is a good month for protest. Roughly four years before the Progressive Puker opened his mouth, the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) spent 21 days “occupying” Mass. Hall to compel Harvard to pay its workers a living wage. The criticism of PSLM’s act sounded a lot like the criticism of the Puker. The Crimson, which supported a living wage, argued that the occupation was “unjustified and inappropriate.” A majority of students supported a living wage, but less than a third supported the occupation. The University...
...long before Mattel jacked up the price of Barbie and the CPI confirmed rising prices, real people were feeling the sting. Making matters worse, after adjusting for the cost of living, the average wage in the U.S. has been in a down trend for nearly two years. For folks making less, even a touch of inflation imposes hardship...
...example, it turns out that drug dealers don't really make so much money after all. Levitt and a colleague who had obtained copies of a Chicago gang's accounting books found that street-corner crack dealers in the 1980s made less than minimum wage. They stayed in the job because they aspired to rise through the ranks and make six figures--which only a few top leaders ever achieved. In other words, the authors explain, "the gang's wages [were] about as skewed as wages in corporate America...