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...students who support the sit-in, we were dismayed when we walked by Mass. Hall Saturday and discovered that it had become co-opted by a group passing out Socialist newspapers and protesting against globalization and corporate greed...
...protesters, both inside and outside of Mass. Hall, seem convinced the issues of transnational corporate greed and Harvard’s failure to institute a living wage go hand-in-hand. We can see the connections they are trying to make. Low wages are caused by powerful institutions paying workers only as much as they have to. Since Harvard can find workers who will accept $7 an hour, it sees no need to supply a living wage...
...Internet bubble is a lot like other monumental investment schemes throughout history. Common characteristics include mass greed and a complete disconnect between a stock's price and its fundamental value. How ironic that the Internet, the very thing at the center of this mania, holds the promise to enlighten and educate investors through information flow. ED SAUNDERS Los Angeles...
...passive path of asking for help from the big pharmaceutical companies or the proactive course of taking all means necessary to address the crisis [MEDICINE, March 19]. American-based pharmaceutical giants have not upheld the fine tradition of scientists like Alexander Fleming and Marie Curie, who had no greed. The onus rests on African nations to import or, better yet, produce cheap generic AIDS drugs. LULUFA KUNDUL VONGTAU Kaduna, Nigeria...
...very fact of being American causes Jung to be entrepreneurially ambitious, to spot an opportunity to make money. But why Jung and not anyone else? Why is he always reaching for more when he doesn’t seem to be a man of particularly extravagant tastes? True, greed has its own logic, as does accumulation and the high of the next big deal (there’s a great scene where George and Diego are raking in so much money they begin judging the amount of cash they have by weighing boxes of hundred-dollar bills). But that?...