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...Dukakis said the debate over how to rein in corporate abuse should not overshadow the problems of economic inequality in the country. He bemoaned the growing gap between the rich and the poor, calling the current $5.25 minimum wage “sinful” while stressing the need for more investment in equalizing public education funding...
...Thirty years ago,” commented one PSSPLM member, “Harvard students courageously stormed University Hall to protest the Vietnam War. Well, we’re protesting the wage that the Summer School pays to its proctors. Hopefully, the Harvard University Police will come in and martyr us in time for our exams. Otherwise, we might have to leave before we accomplish anything. But if that happens, well just keep whining for another year or so, and then maybe the University will do what it was going to do anyway without our comically ignorant ranting...
...mistaken killing of up to 40 Afghan civilians by a U.S. warplane Monday is a lesson in the difficulties in rounding up the scattered remnants of the Taliban and al-Qaeda: The enemy has dispersed and taken shelter within the civilian population, in order to wage a guerrilla war against the U.S. and the government in Kabul. If that results in accidents in which U.S. forces kill civilians, the Taliban and al-Qaeda hope to use those incidents to build support for their cause in the local population. Thats the reason Monday's incident makes life difficult...
...move the National Guard from the Defense Department to the new department. And the overhaul did not encompass the agencies most in need of reform--the FBI and the sprawling U.S. intelligence community. Taking on those powerful bureaucracies would have meant a bigger war than Bush was ready to wage. "The options were gradations from do nothing to do it all," says Card. The President chose "pretty close...
This year, Taylor sat on the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policy, which recommended the University reopen negotiations with its biggest contractors and establish a parity wage for outsourced labor...