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Three years after Harvard brought grapes back to its dining halls, the United Farm Workers union (UFW) called off its 16-year embargo of California table grapes last Tuesday, saying it felt the boycott had served its purpose...
...fair to ask our supporters to honor a boycott when the union must devote all of its present resources toward organizing and negotiating contracts," Rodriguez said in a letter issued from the union's Keene, Calif. Headquarters...
...Driscoll said he agreed the boycott had "skewed" the tenth grade scores in Cambridge but said how to use the results was up to administrators...
...precision from military personnel while simultaneously insisting they could infer the "intent" of a largely Democratic constituency just by staring intently at "pregnant" chads? Second, a sense of enraged patriotism: Congressional Republicans were up in arms over the Democrats' move to block the ballots, threatening everything from an inaugural boycott to a Capitol Hill stalemate if the obstruction led to a Gore presidency...
...celebration, Milosevic has refused to concede defeat. Claiming that the voting returns are too close to determine a winner, Milosevic has declared that there will be a runoff vote, which will take place this Sunday. Meanwhile, Kostunica is contesting the new vote as undemocratic. He has urged Serbs to boycott the polls and flood the streets in protest. Some Western analysts have questioned the wisdom of this strategy. They fear that low voter turnout will enable Milosevic to declare a fraudulent victory after the second round...