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History has not been kind to the Philistines. Exemplified by such figures as the hulking Goliath and the treacherous Delilah, they are depicted in the Bible as thieves and warmongering aliens. The ancient Egyptians branded them pirates and marauders. Since the 17th century, their name has been used as a synonym for uncultured, anti-intellectual boorishness...
...still uncut was broken into tracts too small to serve as habitats for those species -- the spotted owl, for instance -- whose presence indicates a healthy old-growth forest ecology. In some areas, the remaining old forest, that continent of trees that colonists began cutting in Virginia in the 17th century, will last only about 20 more years at present rates of logging...
...Japanese have traditionally viewed suicide as an honorable way of responding to failure or showing devotion to country; witness the phenomenon of seppuku, or ritual disembowelment, in the 17th to 19th centuries, and the kamikaze pilots of World War II. Assuming the blame and resigning is also a deeply rooted practice, even when the person in charge may not have made the mistake. In 1985, for example, Yasumoto Takagi stepped down as president of Japan Air Lines after one of his company's jets crashed into a mountainside, killing 520 people...
Meanwhile, the war of words between the University and HUCTW is continuing. Rondeau said she plans to send a letter to all 3300 Harvard support staff next Monday explaining the union's conduct since the May 17th election and what the union was continuing to do as it waits for the NLRB decision...
HUCTW denies the charges, saying it engaged in legal get-out-the-vote efforts. The union won the May 17th election by a 44-vote margin, although if it had received four fewer votes the election would have been litigated under a previous agreement with the University. The election capped a three-year organizing drive by HUCTW and a two-month anti-union campaign waged by the University...