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Crime, of course, will always be with us. But as long as the economy remains strong, chances are we'll have less reason to fear one another. Alfred Blumstein, who directs the National Consortium on Violence Research, gets asked all the time if crime will keep retreating. He likes to joke that if trends continue, the homicide rate will turn negative in 2007. "Obviously," he adds, "that would have to happen on Easter Sunday...
Protesters at Harvard and across the country are demanding that universities leave the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and join the Workers' Rights Consortium (WRC). Both organizations are designed to monitor conditions in overseas factories manufacturing collegiate apparel, but activists charge that the FLA is too closely tied to corporate interests to be effective...
Instead, they urge schools to affiliate with the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC), a grassroots organization incorporating students and workers...
PSLM sponsored the fast to support Pennsylvania student activists who have occupied the office of University of Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin for the past eight days. The protesters are demanding that their university withdraw from the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and join the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC). PSLM's anti-sweatshop campaign has made similar demands to the Harvard administration...
...1970s, have refused a $1 billion offer to reunite for a 100-concert tour. "It's a hell of a lot of money to say no to," said ABBA alum Benny Andersson, "but we decided it wasn't for us." The overture came from a U.S.-British consortium that prefers to remain anonymous. Though ABBA disbanded in 1983, its popularity stubbornly soldiers on; sales of ABBA Gold remain strong, and Mamma Mia, a musical based on the band's songs, is currently playing to packed houses in London. Speculating on the band's endurance, former member Bjorn Ulvaeus said...