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Saunders claimed Mucha should not be elected because he does not support the living wage campaign. He also alluded to Mucha’s alleged support for reinstating ROTC at Harvard as a reason to oppose Mucha’s candidacy...
...with us or against us" ultimatum by the Bush administration last fall, Musharraf sided with the U.S. and embarked on a risky campaign to save his country from its two-decade drift towards Islamic extremism and economic collapse. He offered the U.S. military bases and intelligence support to wage war on the Taliban and stared down the resulting domestic Islamist backlash. Recognizing that the rot of extremism ran to the highest levels of his military and intelligence services, he risked alienating the institutions that had brought him to power by purging a number of Taliban supporters from the top brass...
...fund as a cheap bribe. "The government is not taking any responsibility for what it's done. This was just one screw-up after another." She is also worried about her financial stability; in less than a month, she will have their third child. Thomas was the primary wage earner, although Cheri worked as a part-time school psychologist until Sept. 11. She doesn't see how she can go back to work with an infant and two toddlers unless she hires full-time help. "Please, come step into my shoes for a minute," she says, her eyes flat...
...fund as a cheap bribe. "The government is not taking any responsibility for what it's done. This was just one screw-up after another." She is also worried about her financial stability; in less than a month, she will have their third child. Thomas was the primary wage earner, although Cheri worked as a part-time school psychologist until Sept. 11. She doesn't see how she can go back to work with an infant and two toddlers unless she hires full-time help. "Please, come step into my shoes for a minute," she says, her eyes flat...
With its latest series of reforms, Harvard can claim with some credibility to have turned over a new leaf in its treatment of workers. It cannot—and does not—claim to have eliminated poverty wages, or to have met the standards called for by the broader community. Until Harvard has improved its status as an employer by providing an acceptable wage minimum and the means for workers to organize freely, it cannot honestly claim to uphold any “principle” other than the bottom line. Until it has instituted measures to ensure transparency...