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...from 5.5% in 1992 - now live below the poverty line of ?2,020 a month for a single parent with a child. Roughly half of that number are like Diaz, working full time but struggling at the lowest end of the salary scale. Two factors are largely to blame for swelling the ranks of the poor: an influx of immigrants that began in the 1960s and the recent economic downturn. In the past 40 years, the Swiss recruited hundreds of thousands of unskilled foreign workers to fill low-paying jobs. By the 1990s, there were approximately 500,000 living permanently...
...would be convenient to blame the constant rush to achieve—either through gaining higher grades or accumulating superior extracurricular positions to one’s peers—on the atmosphere at Harvard. Yet the sad truth—or, perhaps, the cheery truth—is that pressure here is entirely self-inflicted. It is perfectly possible to coast through, working very little and obtaining what, in pre-gender equality days, used to be called Gentleman’s Cs. Yet, to hear students stress and strain over pointless problem sets and redundant response papers, one would...
...course, not all the blame should be placed on the council. Certainly in the case of the concert and the election, the dean’s office should be held accountable for not making its concerns clear—nor timely—enough to allow the planned events to go forth smoothly. In both cases, Illingworth had reasonable objections to the council’s plans, but there’s no excuse for leaving the difficulties unresolved and then canceling activities as a result...
...main thing now is to avoid blame-casting if possible and to get the election underway,” he wrote in an e-mail...
Yenne said the Crimson was not completely to blame for the team’s loss...