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Vol XXXIV No. 52

Thursday, November 9, 2000

  Commentaries

Pushing for a true living wage
Todd David Whitmore
The Common Good

Last column, I addressed four objections to the living wage. There are more. I will conclude this theme by addressing the remaining objections. Objection five: Instituting a living wage would be imposing first world values on the third world. Reply: The ... [more]
Quote of the Day
Rush Limbaugh
political commentator

"Poverty and suffering are not due to the unequal distribution of goods and resources, but to the unequal distribution of capitalism." ... [more]
Pressure to get fit to fit in
Amy Schill
Dazed and Amused

I'm not a healthy person. My idea of peak physical condition is being able to walk to DeBartolo without getting a side stitch. Back at home, this wasn't a problem. Sure, experts advocated regular exercise, but most people got enough physical ... [more]
Father Garrick writes in
Rev. David A. Garrick
Sylmar, Calif.

Since my difficult resignation from Notre Dame in April 1998, I have been through a lot. My religious order sent me, at my request, to Los Angeles to work as a volunteer chaplain for AIDS Project LA and to look ... [more]
Finding one's place
Colleen Murphy
senior

My mother is a pretty good judge of character. She has five children and like a good mother, she recognizes that each of us is different in our own ways. There is the socialite, the radical, the athlete and the baby. ... [more]
Showing courage
Nathaniel Hannan
junior

Tuesday morning, I hung about 25 posters in O'Shaughnessy hall. Posters which you will never see because all but three were systematically ripped down within hours. These posters weren't obscene. They didn't have any foul language, and they were even ... [more]


Inside Column
A woman's place
Colleen McCarthy
Associate News Editor

As I stood Tuesday night in the packed Grand Hyatt in New York City with other staff members, interns, and supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton, a roar of approval and cheers sounded when the official announcement came that the First Lady ... [more]


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