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Solution in Sight...
...becoming apparent, however, is that silence will soon sell to all of us, wearied as we are by the sensory overload of most public places. So far, to its credit, Harvard has respected our sanity (and has a big enough billfold) not to sell every flat surface in sight. But maybe a less well-endowed university--or the struggling public elementary, middle and high schools--might stoop to such tactics in an effort to find the dollars they need by any means necessary. One wonders if the Siren of the market might just be too strong...
...involvement with the Harvard Living Wage Campaign began that afternoon. The sight of Bob's anonymous arm and the cafeteria's multi-million dollar Joan Miro installation that framed it became for me an icon of the skewed institutional values that subject Harvard's working-poor to unnecessary and, in a very real sense, invisible hardship...
...success be enough to spur the Fed chief into do something drastic - like once again raising interest rates? Count on it, says Kadlec. "Consumer spending indices hold a lot of weight with Greenspan," he explains. "As long as we see numbers like these, there's no relief in sight from incrementally rising interest rates." Once we've accepted the water torture-like inevitability of quarter-percent increases, American investors are still left with one nagging question: How far will the rates have to go before Greenspan can finally relax...
...cheapest--way to see the Pacific Northwest. Subsidized by the states of Oregon and Washington, the nine-hour trip costs only $44 for coach, and you can buy segments (Portland to Seattle costs $21). With current schedules, you need to stay overnight in Seattle, but that means you can sight-see and sample local salmon washed down by a tangy microbrew. You can bring your bike along, at least as far as the Canadian border, stowing it on one of the Cascades' bicycle racks ($5 extra; reserve ahead), so you can tool around cycle-friendly Portland or Seattle...