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...that all else is bad; I’ve been guilty of drawing such distinctions myself. But as I prepare to enter the world I would hope to improve, I can’t deny that while the world needs labor organizers, it also needs businessmen who understand that well-paid workers with health care plans are productive workers, just as while the world needs public school teachers, it also needs politicians who will not sell out their constituents at the drop of a hat. The world needs our best, most talented, most caring, and most thoughtful people doing work...
...enters a domain pockmarked with gaping craters, a lunar- like legacy of blasts thousands of feet underground. Many of Moore's 5,500 colleagues labor in cavernous horizontal tunnels that are bored into the granite mesas. To the worker, the test site represents not a nuclear underworld but a well-paid job. "You get used to it, feels like home," says Don Maxwell, 44, an underground surveyor. "Nice and warm in the winter, cool in the summer...
...Investor Says HMC Overpays,” news, Feb. 9). Yale’s endowment has significantly outperformed Harvard’s; according to your own statistics, Yale’s fund has outperformed Harvard’s by 1.2 percent annually for the last twenty years. Swenson is well-paid; he earns around $1 million each year. But compared to Harvard’s managers he is a virtual pauper...
Good journalists are generally well-paid, have stimulating jobs, and don't need the lure of prizes to motivate them to excel. But peer recognition in this highly competitive game is always welcome - and should be celebrated. Last week, this magazine's Editor at Large, Tom Dusevic, was honored at the Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prizes. He won the all-media Commentary, Analysis, Opinion and Critique category for three pieces in the areas of politics, economics and diplomacy, including a major story on former Labor leader Mark Latham in the run-up to last year's federal...
...something there, the relationship between two remarkable people." They made a strange couple. Short and energetic, Shanti loved talk and his evening whisky. Henny, tall and elegant, was quieter but irrepressibly kind. They never had children and argued frequently, in German, yet they remained devoted. Henny quit her well-paid office job to focus on Shanti's needs. He underwrote her passion for clothes and took her on yearly vacations to Switzerland (they never returned to Germany). Fortunately, there is more to Two Lives than two lives. Henny and Shanti neatly spanned the 20th century (they were both born...