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...JUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCH Embattled Olympic Committee prez wins vote of confidence--and Don King wasn't even involved...
...body voted to expel six members implicated in the taking of hundreds of thousands of dollars in graft during the site selection process for the 2002 games. At the same time, the committee overwhelmingly voted to express its confidence in the leadership of its embarrassed and embattled president, Juan Antonio Samaranch. The votes were expected, says TIME assistant managing editor Howard Chua-Eoan:"The committee knew it had to do something, but it still wanted to express confidence in its leader...
...even as we uphold these ideas, Antonio and his immediate daily condition are somewhat overlooked. Antonio likes Harvard and is grateful that this job provides relative benefits and fairly comfortable working conditions. When he first arrived in the United States 12 years ago, Antonio labored day and night at the fish piers of South Boston...
...Harvardologists will most likely record this week as the "great week of student activism." As we come off of the high, though, we should remember that we are not mere demagogues engaged in purposeless rabble-rousing. The Antonios at Harvard must remain at the focus of any campaign. Furthermore, while advancing Antonio's right to earn 95 cents more, we should not ignore other deeper structural changes that could be made to the system and the socioeconomic reality that currently limits Antonio to two or three hours of sleep a night...
...Indeed, Harvard is the second richest non-profit institution in the world. Therefore, not only can it easily afford paying Antonio and its other laborers at least $10 an hour, but the institution (as well as its past and present students) can afford campaigning and advocating for a whole lot more...