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Kris Rondeau, who is attempting to unionize the University's more than 4000 technical and clerical workers, called on students to support her effort. "I think Harvard has contempt for all of us," she said. "We are going to need students beside us at all times...
...cents up. At one point, when they have pooled their money with a third friend to play the dollar machines, all three squeal together and draw a crowd five deep. "How much did they win?" people ask. "$100," comes the reply. "Oh, shoot," says a hardened gambler. His contempt delights them more than their jackpot, which they duly pump back into the machine...
...quid, and in areas like South London there is a new caste system, with the immigrants running things and the working-class white "natives" in their employ. The Pakistanis and , the punks are inverting colonialism and reinventing capitalism. The empire has come home, and on both sides, proximity breeds contempt...
There was, however, little jubilation at the measure. The government's sincerity about easing restrictions immediately came into question when it ordered three CBS newsmen expelled from the country the same day. The charge: "flagrant contempt" of a court order banning the presence of television cameras at a mass funeral for 17 of the 23 blacks killed during four days of violence in the black township of Alexandra, outside of Johannesburg. The evictions, said CBS Johannesburg Bureau Manager William Mutschmann, one of the three newsmen, would "severely curtail CBS's ability to cover the South African story...
Home Minister Stoffel Botha said that, in shooting and broadcasting film of the funeral Wednesday in the black township of Alexandra, the network acted in "flagrant contempt" of a court verdict upholding a police ban on cameras at the scene. CBS and other networks had asked the court to cancel the prohibition...