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Kenney is currently under investigation by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for allegedly intimidating pro-union workers. Protesters also faulted the contractor for failing to provide an apprenticeship program or to pay its workers the prevailing local wage...
...with a Yaqui Indian sorcerer are taken as fact or fiction; who died on April 27; of liver failure; in Los Angeles. An anthropology grad student at UCLA, Castaneda published The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge in 1968, the first of many accounts of his apprenticeship to Mexican shaman Don Juan. Readers soaked the books up, even though critics thought Don Juan was just a figment of an active imagination that also manifested itself when the author dispensed false biographical details about himself. The reclusive Castaneda steadfastly refused to be photographed: for a TIME cover article...
...defensively driven half-court game in which pure athletic ability was of a more limited advantage and the discipline and completeness of a player's skills were equally important. As such, Jordan is a reminder to us of something desperately undervalued in contemporary America: the value of a real apprenticeship for even the most talented of people...
...Saul Bellow had remained in Quebec, Mordecai Richler would be Canada's second best Jewish novelist. That would be nothing to agitate a stick at. Most of Richler's 10 novels, which include The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and St. Urbain's Horsemen, are inspired comedies about Montreal's Jewish community, of which the author, now 66, remains a member...
...there were plenty of opportunities for the strings to generate a beautiful sound. The solo by Concertmistress Jen Burney '99 was one of the best parts of the first movement and, incidentally, authored the most entertaining program note: "young Antonin's musical talent was discovered early during his apprenticeship as a butcher." Was this a rhythmic knock-the-ham-hock knack? Or did Dvorak's vegan soul have him whistling carrion dirges...