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...that inherent uncertainty is cited by blithe spirits as reason not to do anything about Social Security. Worrywarts, meanwhile, argue that the distance of the looming bankruptcy is all the more reason to make changes calmly now. Both arguments have merit, but it's the former that is almost certain to prevail. Previous Social Security fixes came only when the checks were about to bounce, and that dire moment is decades...
Advocates know that permitting babies on the job is not a universal solution. It wouldn't work well, for example, with certain jobs, like doctoring and teaching, or for particularly fussy infants. But even naysayers may be surprised by the results of research conducted by Mary Secret, a social-work professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her 2005 analysis of 55 businesses with baby-friendly policies found that people often anticipate disaster but there is rarely a negative effect on co-workers or productivity. What's more, she learned that having babies around can boost morale among colleagues. "We have tended...
...step that does seem certain is that the group will file as an official student organization with Harvard...
...today is perhaps not as obvious as during the Cold War era, but academic discourse is never free from political motivations. Political power begins, it is often argued, from the composition of discourse itself. And if discourse and voice is the democratic route towards empowerment, then the silence of certain demographic groups is troubling. A select few Asian ethnicities are fortunate enough to comprise a substantial proportion of the campus population—these ethnicities can more easily draw upon sheer numerical leverage in order to make their presence and voices heard. Asians collectively comprise a fifth of campus...
...thing, however, was for certain. They were friends when they had come here, and they would be when they left. "Damn it, when we leave here, let's leave united," Hillary Clinton supporter Vern Smith declared in one of the opening speeches, adding that divisiveness would only help the Republicans. "That's how they took us apart the last two times...