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Damon, Class of 1992, who left Harvard to pursue an acting career, said the University's failure to enact a living wage embarrassed him "as a Harvard person...
This liberty interest, implicating personal privacy as it does, is designed to protect the worth and dignity of each human, to create a zone into which the government may not enter without good and proper cause. It runs counter to our notion of decency and fair play that any person should be taken aside and searched without probable cause of some wrongdoing, but random drug testing is a search based upon presupposed guilt without any suspicion, much less probable cause...
Would we be safer if police had plenipotentiary powers? Certainly we would curb more crime if police could wander through our homes looking in closets and drawers or stopping and searching any person or car they chose. But the genius of American liberty is the recognition that public safety is not always the highest civic goal, and it may come at too high a price...
...decision to attend the rally paid off handsomely. For one thing, Ben's on again-off again paramour, Gwyneth Paltrow, was in attendance. Yes, she looks as good in person. And even if their attention is not directed towards you, it is always exhilarating to find oneself in a crowd of shrieking girls. Most importantly, I rediscovered the reason why I don't usually find myself at such expressions of liberal discontent...
Harvard is a non-profit, and its finances are sufficiently transparent that any rational person can see that a living wage will not cause intolerable financial strain. And, as was pointed out at Saturday's rally, it may be that Harvard can pay less than a living wage because the market will bear it. But that doesn't make it the right thing to do. Every student at this University should make it clear to the administration that while our custodians, cooks, and security guards may work for $6.50 an hour, we--the people who interact on a daily basis...