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Instead, UMass-Amherst continues to deny the RAs’ right to organize. In response, on April 19, 15 students and workers held a sit-in in the office of the vice chancellor for student affairs, demanding recognition of their union. All were arrested, including those who locked arms to block a police...
...citizens dispirited by the petty obsessions of Washington can comfort themselves by looking to Germany, now in the midst of a brawling election campaign. At the moment, one of the central issues in the race for Chancellor is whether incumbent GERHARD SCHRODER comes by his enviable head of auburn hair naturally. After a German news agency suggested that Schroder, 58, covers his gray, he sent his lawyers to court to stop the agency from repeating the claim. He also sent his barber, who vouched for his hair's authenticity. The court will rule in May, but Schroder's opponents...
PALPATINE The Naboo senator of Episode I becomes the Republic's Supreme Chancellor in II. He resurfaces in holographic form as the Emperor, Vader's boss, in V, then in the flesh...
...this year. Putting heat on the metalworkers, the chemical workers' union two weeks ago agreed to a 3.3% increase. The companies, said Martin Kannegiesser, the employers' association president, have gone "to the limit of what was possible." A walkout now would represent a major embarrassment to the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, which had promised to cut unemployment dramatically and faces re-election in September. Zwickel, the IG Metall leader who favors three-piece suits over worker's overalls, argues that big pay raises are good for the domestic economy by increasing consumer spending. But economists worry that...
This legacy of harm generates a resounding claim for recompense. When Germany announced its “moral responsibility” for the Holocaust reparations (Wiedergutmachung) in 1954, the Federal Republic of Germany’s first Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, stated that Germany was culpable for the “state-sponsored” crimes of the Nazi regime. Likewise, the U.S. government admitted its complicit nature in the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 for the Japanese interment camps in this country during World War II, and found that with governmental culpability comes the need for repair. Black reparations models...