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...force two separate and important issues to be argued against each other not only creates a bad choice but is also mean spirited. Why target a positive, senior-led effort as a way of sending a message to the University or its pocketbook? Why not refuse to buy food from the Greenhouse? There are more effective means of advocacy than simply signing your name and withholding money from the Senior Gift. Since the Senior Gift, the Harvard College Fund, and the Harvard Alumni Association have no jurisdiction over Harvard’s investment policy, we suggest that people who support...
...plausible to think of happiness not as a state of mind or a state of the pocketbook, but as an actual sovereign state? Many surveys lead us down that path. In study after study on national happiness levels, my country, the Philippines, gets unlikely top scores. The World Values Survey published by the University of Michigan last November ranked 82 countries and territories according to feelings of "subjective well-being"?which combined its happiness and "life-satisfaction" scores?and the Philippines had one of the highest ratings in Asia, above far richer locations such as Taiwan, Japan and South Korea...
...brothers and sisters and second cousins and cousins of your aunt's husband's sister and aunts of your mom's second cousin Dionisia from Veracruz." (Or, in real-world terms, Parilla, a single mom, won't skimp on her baby, no matter how stretched her pocketbook.) Plus, diapers are a growth category: 1 in 5 babies born in the U.S., and 1 in 2 in California, is Hispanic...
...interest, it’s that it has a different moral vision. If we want to win back Kansas, we can’t just change the subject to the economy or adopt the religious rhetoric of the Republicans. We can’t ask them to vote their pocketbook while we vote our values. Democrats in every community in the country need to be talking about why we believe what we believe, because it’s not just about money for us. It’s about right and wrong, compassion and hatred, charity and selfishness. Kansas doesn?...
...stated, "I vote for Viacom. Viacom is my life, and I do believe that a Republican Administration is better for media companies than a Democratic one." How convenient to funnel all that your vote stands for into one neat line item. As a result, your vote becomes typically narrow. Pocketbook voting or tax-break accounting for Big Business rests on a stubborn belief in trickle-down economics. As a small-business owner, I vote for something more than my business. I vote for everyone...