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...amount, but I found chem flat-out boring. Physics was painfully entertaining junior year, but I enjoyed history and English much, much more.So in my senior year, encouraged by success on the debate team, I opted for courses on postmodernism and contemporary political issues over Advanced Bio. I enjoyed writing and discussing ideas far more than learning bodily cycles, the coefficient of friction, and chemical equations that involved something called the “mol.” Also, I hated math. Along the way, I never explicitly told my parents that I was changing my plans to go into...
...later write that living wages are flawed because they calculate “the money necessary to support a decent lifestyle independent of the nature of the actual work being done, and independent of the compensation that the labor market demands.” Yes, that is the very point of a living wage. People without marketable skills deserve to have decent lifestyles, even if the free market would compensate them at a wage rate that could not support them. Either you believe that the free market always leads to fair wages, or you believe that free-market wages...
...country. In 2004, living wage initiatives were on the ballot in two states, Florida and Nevada. In 2006, activists expect to target an additional four states. At the same time, unions and community groups around the country have persuaded cities to pay more to their employees. As I write, activists in our own Cambridge are working on a minimum wage increase. (Technically, a “living wage” law only raises the pay of city employees and the employees of private firms who do business with the city. A pay raise for a whole city or a whole...
...stick to its values. He said that Apple’s decision to design its computer around consumers’ needs helped it find success. “When you start a company, it’s important to know what your values are. Meet with your founders, and write them down,” he said. The attendees included bloggers who posted real-time updates on speeches and spectators recording sessions with cameras attached to their laptops. During break times, the entrepreneurs networked and recharged their laptops. According to the project manager of Harvard Computing Society Matthew A. Gline...
Though you write like a true cynic, you show the integrity to actually find out for yourself, see what is there, and speak what you see. So many other pieces just follow the norm of bashing Scientology and twist all the facts to suit their pre-conceived or antagonistic ideas. My applause to you for your stopping at the edge and refusing to jump off the cliffs of insanity with the other journalistic lemmings...