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...took a radically different tack. Patients received free medication if they signed a contract pledging that they would finish their treatment; friends and family served as co-guarantors. Those in the program received nutritional supplements through the World Food Program. "Our whole approach from the beginning is that no one wants to be sick, no one wants their kid or wife to die," says Goldfeld, who visits the program several times a year from her base at Harvard. "If you give someone the education of how to be well, they'll do it." The World Health Organization was doubtful...
...said Tom Biggie, a fellow security guard who came to know McCombe in 1990 through the union. The labor movement at Harvard gained steam in the early 1990s, when the HUSPMGU confronted University three years in a row about pay increases. The two ultimately signed a contract promising the workers a nine percent increase in pay over the course of three years. At its peak, HUSPMGU represented approximately 150 Harvard employees, including security guards, parking attendants, and museum employees. “He was the key person that sort of lit that torch” said James LaBua, Harvard?...
...drink” in an English accent usually works. Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: In order to get my staggering phone bill reduced, I once told Cingular that I was a 3rd year student at Harvard Law and that I knew far more about contract laws than they ever would. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: I won the 2003 Junior World Rowing Championships, rowing in the Great Britain 8. Favorite childhood toy: Legos. Fave part about Harvard: The people. Describe yourself in three words: Euro, athletic, intense. In 15 minutes...
...contract deadline approaches, the Service Employees International Union, which represents the custodial staff, is demanding that the University pay our janitors $20 per hour, provide them full benefits (increasing the real hourly wage significantly), create more opportunities for full-time work, and end outsourcing...
...foreign oil. Other items likely to be included are greatly expanded funding for science and technology research, calls for stem cell research and good government proposals that might highlight G.O.P. ethics problems. The value of these Democrat ideas is probably overstated; although the G.O.P.'s 10-ten point Contract with America in 1994 continues to get credit for helping Republicans take control of Congress, most voters hadn't heard of the document when they cast their ballots. What may be more important is how much Democrats succeed in blasting Bush and the Republicans and convincing voters a new party should...