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Boston labor unions have launched a boycott of the Adolph Coors Co. alleging discrimination against minority groups and trade union members...
...response to the issue, at least one Harvard student group has decided to ignore the boycott call, while another group plans to endorse the unions' move...
...parents of schoolchildren over whether youngsters with AIDS should be allowed to attend school if they are physically able to do so. New York City's decision to permit a single unidentified seven-year-old girl with AIDS to enter a second- grade class provoked an angry parental boycott in two Queens school districts, and a lawsuit has been filed seeking a reversal of school-board policy. In a bizarre twist to that case last week, the attorney representing the second- grader announced that there is evidence that the child does not have AIDS after all. The city health department...
...message to the firms is simple: If you work for apartheid, we won't work for you," second-year student Elissa Stein said yesterday. Stein said protesters hope the boycott will "encourage law firms to join the growing national movement to isolate the white minority regime...
Only one of the five firms targeted for the boycott, the 220-lawyer Washington firm Covington & Burling, is among the 700 firms that have planned interview sessions in Cambridge next month...