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Many at Yale were surprised by the results of an April 30 election where graduate students voted down a proposal to adopt the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) as their collective bargaining unit. Certainly GESO’s leadership had every reason to be surprised. They’ve spent over a million dollars and have been working for more than 11 years to unionize graduate students at Yale...
...time, the U.S. may adopt a formal system for determining who can serve in the new government. According to an American consultant on Garner's team, the U.S. is considering a plan to purge the top three tiers of Baathist leadership--involving at least 30,000 people. Another proposal would require all government employees to forswear loyalty to the Baath Party. Of course, people desperate for work are likely to sign anything...
...terrorism may be launching a legal revolution in America. The changes pose these questions: How necessary are some of the reforms? Have John Ashcroft and the Justice Department unraveled constitutional protections in trying to ensure our safety? "There is a significant civil-liberties price to be paid as we adopt various national-security initiatives," says Mary Jo White, a former U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, whose office pursued some of the biggest terrorism cases of the 1990s. "For the most part, I think that price is necessary. But what I worry about is government officials...
...Adopt a system for teaching your kids. I'm partial to what I call the share-save-spend philosophy. Ninety-nine percent of the messages kids hear about money are on how to spend it. So I put share up front intentionally to help families and young people look into the world and say, What are the needs of the world out here? Maybe it's the neighborhood or a religious organization. When you share, I think it also opens up a young person to be more interested and curious about saving. When you're more grateful for what...
...check in rural localities by capping the price of many procedures. For example, pumping the stomach of someone attempting suicide by eating fertilizer?a practice not infrequent among women in farming villages?costs $1. But governmental price controls mean local clinics have to raise funding by other means. Most adopt the strategy seen in the village of Nanzhao in Hebei. There, the local clinic contains a wooden desk, several threadbare chairs and a bookshelf lined with antibiotics, steroids and painkillers. In most countries, such potent medications can only be dispensed by qualified specialists, but for the clinic they represent...