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Dissatisfied with Harvard's turnout in a nationally coordinated demonstration for minority faculty hiring last year, Harvard Law students are calling for a boycott of classes to coincide with tomorrow's nationwide protest, and are asking their professors to help by cancelling classes...
This year, Harvard protest organizers said they expect as many as 500 students to join the boycott, and attend a rally and teach in instead of scheduled classes. In the afternoon, demonstrators will march down Mass...
...average, those cards weren't being used much, while many other customers had ordered more than 160,000 cards in that same time period. So the media ask, "Has this hurt you? Do you think your company will survive?" Well, certainly we will survive. Ralph Nader says, "Boycott!" and when we're asked, we say we haven't noticed it. Is that arrogance? Maybe I should have said that I'm wringing my hands or something. I guess I'm supposed somehow to be generating sympathy, but it's very hard to do if you ask me a straight question...
Secessionist fever has been simmering as well in neighboring Estonia, which last week followed its sister republic in requesting talks with Moscow. The Caucasian republic of Georgia is also flirting with defection, after parliamentarians in Tbilisi denounced their incorporation into the union. Local nationalists are calling for a boycott of parliamentary elections on March...
Some puppets, having had their strings loosened or even cut, can be expected, like Pinocchio, to misbehave as badly as ever. Fidel Castro, for example, is almost as much at odds with Moscow as he is with Washington. But that is no argument for a diplomatic boycott. Quite the contrary. The U.S. would have more clout with such miscreants if it dealt with them directly, through American ambassadors who could remonstrate with local officials and gather intelligence...