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We’d like to think that universal rights are reasonably clear—that a well-informed, rational person (or at least a well-intentioned Harvard administrator) could know whether or not the University were in compliance. If there’s no method of resolving a dispute between experts, let alone average students, as to the meaning of the word “adequate,” then the existence of a universal right to adequate wages seems rather doubtful. It becomes an entirely mysterious matter how much money—how much food, how much sleep...
There is a third method of dealing with examination questions—that is by the use of an overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact, it wasn’t obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point form which to start. This is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
These questions are good examples of why good faith collective bargaining is the best method of determining wages and benefits; Harvard does not have the ability or the right to answer them...
...homework, while the four-year-old will get a playroom. They're the kind of family that have an electric car and are building solar panels on the roof of their house to provide all the electricity. Vegas is taking bets on the method the children will use to rebel against their parents...
...Because, wherever he is, whether in Belfast or Bethlehem or our own backyard, and by whatever method he uses, from anthrax to hijacked planes, he has fundamentally changed not just the way we live our lives, but how we view life itself. - Kathleen Beckett, New York...