Word: waging
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...fantasy, is his refusal to embrace a vision of the world as a Manichaean struggle between Good and Evil. Tolkien's work has enormous imaginative force, but you have to go elsewhere for moral complexity. Martin's wars are multifaceted and ambiguous, as are the men and women who wage them and the gods who watch them and chortle, and somehow that makes them mean more. A Feast for Crows isn't pretty elves against gnarly orcs. It's men and women slugging it out in the muck, for money and power and lust and love...
This Halloween, janitors, their children, and members of Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) appeared on University President Lawrence H. Summers’ doorstep asking for more than just candy. In addition to requests for an increase in wages to $20 an hour, the protestors asked for paternity/maternity leave of three to five days, for a sick leave of three to five days, that childcare benefits be extended to part-time employees, and that the University continue to work towards increasing the level of full-time custodial staff to 60 percent. While we are opposed to the $20 per hour increase...
Once you start allowing your students to debate the merits of a democratic university or the value of the living wage sit-in, your fate at Harvard is sealed...
Harvard janitors, their children, and student organizers attempted to pull a Halloween trick on University President Lawrence H. Summers at his house last night in an effort to raise awareness for the janitors’ living-wage campaign...
Reasonable people will disagree about the appropriate wage level for Harvard workers, but we can’t afford to forget what is at stake. One of my favorite music albums ends with a brief interview with a homeless man. The man nonchalantly describes his life on the street and how he came to live it. He’s not angry, and he doesn’t ask for help. He just wants his interviewer to understand one thing. When you’re talking about poverty, he says, “Stakes is high.” Harvard...