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...financial losses, a process completed in 2004. To fill the void, Harvard subcontracted with Security Services Incorporated—now AlliedBarton—which did not permit its Harvard employees to unionize.Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) has been pressuring the University and AlliedBarton to accept unionization for over two years, according to Adaner Usmani ’08, a SLAM member.“We don’t have any clout in Allied, we’re not shareholders,” Usmani said. “The main way we can be useful...
...program will help address glaring gaps in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations that he says an “unsympathetic administration” has ignored. “We just lost two fields, Persian Languages and Literatures, and Turkish Languages and Literatures, and we cannot accept any AM or PhD candidates for these fields,” he said. This is “a situation that clearly needs to be rectified.” Heinrichs said that he is hoping to steer the program toward a focus on modern Islamic studies?...
...expect surprised reactions from white students. Jeremy S. Lin ’10 is a recruited basketball player, a member of the varsity team. He is also Asian-American. Since matriculating here, he’s discovered that these two facts are difficult for many Harvard students to accept together. “Some people don’t believe that I play basketball,” Lin says. “When people see me, they automatically assume I’m the worst on the team. They ask me if I only play when we?...
...Religious leaders at the conference addressed themselves to some of the taboos inhibiting an effective response to HIV-AIDS. Some called on the faithful to accept AIDS patients and not close the doors of mercy in their faces even if they are viewed as having sinned - God forgives, and so must society, was the message. Religious leaders have a pivotal role in the campaign against AIDS in the Arab world, given the taboo nature of any discussion of sexuality and sexual freedom and the deeply religious nature of the prevailing social norms. Plainly, as the HIV-infection figures show, sexual...
...theory that HIV is coming to the region from the outside. "The reality everyone should know is that AIDS in the region is with us and that we are infecting our own people," says Moalla. But she's not optimistic about how soon people in the Arab world will accept the reality and begin to take responsibility for protecting themselves against infection...