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...breakfast with Bowles in Raleigh, I wonder if the race is between Stiff and Stiffer. Bowles, 57, who dresses and speaks like the banker he was, stresses Dole's opposition in 1989 to an increase in the minimum wage. In a state chock-full of seniors who didn't make it to Florida, he is scoring points with Social Security, which Dole, like Bush, would privatize, after a fashion. She now proposes that a modest 2% gointo private investments, but some worry even that amount could cripple the system...
...Republican Club (HRC) as “intellectually lazy” for their lack of “discussions of the vital issues.” This charge is baffling given both clubs’ recent history of lively debates with each other on school choice, the living wage, the Bush tax cut and drilling in Alaska. It is baffling given the HRC’s constant writing and internal debate on our Policy Committee. It is baffling given both clubs’ involvement in crafting thoughtful and hard-hitting events at the Institute of Politics. It is baffling given...
PSLM member Matthew R. Skomarovsky ’03 said the police presence was aimed at intimidating PSLM, which staged a three-week occupation of Mass. Hall in spring 2001 to protest for a living wage for Harvard workers...
Health-care premiums have risen 12.7% between spring 2001 and spring 2002, far outstripping inflation and wage growth, and things aren't getting any easier. According to a recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 78% of companies with 200 or more workers plan to increase the amount paid directly by their employees for health care. And the U.S. Census Bureau reported last week that the number of Americans without health insurance rose sharply last year...
...this time: the suspect is an American. U.S. authorities claim Ahmed Ibrahim Bilal, who was deported from Malaysia on Oct. 11 after his passport was revoked by Washington, is part of a six-person al-Qaeda terror cell based in Oregon. The group is alleged to have "conspired to wage war" against the U.S., most notably when five of them sought to enter Afghanistan last fall to fight in support of the Taliban. Four of the six, including Bilal's brother, have been arrested in the U.S., while one suspect remains at large. Bilal himself flatly denies the charge...