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...Aboriginal Cathy Freeman, a favorite in the 400-meter run, crossed a pond of water to light the Olympic flame, she symbolically bridged a racial divide that has tainted and tormented Australia. And during the parade of athletes, the teams of South and North Korea entered as one, two bitter enemies reuniting for sport. Stop the presses: Peace breaks out at the Olympics...
...prominent politicians exchange bitter words over the appearance of "rats" in a G.O.P. campaign ad, we at Dartboard would like to remind our peers of a Rodentia problem of a different nature: Dirty mice...
...controversial decision last month, Harvard filled the vacancy left by Kovach by naming former Detriot News editor Robert H. Giles the foundation's new curator. It was a questionable appointment, preceded by several letters of protest. Giles achieved notoriety among some reporters for his anti-union position during a bitter 1995 strike at the Detroit News. Former Detroit News reporters also contend that, under Giles, the paper published biased and slanted accounts of the strike. Based on independent reviews of the Detroit News' coverage, these accusations seem at least partially valid...
...though, there were other signals that should perhaps have caught Ford's attention. As Firestone struggled to keep up with the insatiable appetite for Explorers, labor strife was brewing at its Decatur plant--dubbed the war zone by activists. A bitter 10-month walkout in 1994-95 left the assembly lines in the hands of unskilled replacement workers, who had few veterans to train under, and the labor dispute wasn't finally resolved until 1996. When the strike was settled, many of the old hands did not return to their jobs, and Firestone's Japanese parent, Bridgestone, shifted supervisors around...
...though, there were other signals that should perhaps have caught Ford's attention. As Firestone struggled to keep up with the insatiable appetite for Explorers, labor strife was brewing at its Decatur plant - dubbed the war zone by activists. A bitter 10-month walkout in 1994-95 left the assembly lines in the hands of unskilled replacement workers, who had few veterans to train under, and the labor dispute wasn't finally resolved until 1996. When the strike was settled, many of the old hands did not return to their jobs, and Firestone's Japanese parent, Bridgestone, shifted supervisors around...