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...justified forcing the few to subsidize the many. The truth is that a city of 90,000 forces fewer than 700 of its small property owners to subsidize 28,000 tenants, many with higher incomes and more education than their landlords. The truth is that well-off tenants live in controlled apartments larger than they need and pay rents too low to cover the cost of major repairs...
...sure what I would do if Congress called for a draft. I would want to resist out of anger, but my resistance would only shift the burden to somebody less well...
SOCIAL responsibility is perhaps the most important value that education passes on to the next generation--responsibility to tell the truth, to preserve the planet and to improve the lot of the least well-off, both in absolute and in relative terms. The best contribution Harvard can make to the world is to ensure that more of its graduates choose careers that identify and solve the problems that have been ignored or exacerbated over the last 354 years...
While sports dailies thrive in other nations, including France and Italy, they tend to stress facts and figures rather than slick writing. The National, on the other hand, presents itself as a literate journal aiming at young, well-off college graduates, presumably male. Some 1,200 pages of ads have been sold for the first year, 20% above initial projections, thanks in large part to Deford's credibility, which he has exploited by pitching to potential advertisers in person. Says Drew Marcus, an analyst at Kidder Peabody: "The paper is going after a very narrow niche, but one with...
Section leaders encourage students to object to Rawls' scheme on the grounds that it unwisely compromises efficiency for the sake of equity. It is true that a Rawlsian society does focus on the least well-off and contends that income differentials must be justified. But all the Difference Principle asks is that the inequalities in society be harnessed to provide some benefit to the poor. Rawls' "Justice as Fairness" is not about levelling equality. A more truly Rawlsian policy might be adjusting marginal tax rates on high incomes and channeling the revenue to the less well...