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...city, state and federal—to put their money where their mouths are and do more to celebrate those who risk their lives for a living than buy them off with hollow praise. That, or let’s hope a giant speed trap staffed by the contract-less members of the NYPD awaits the buses of the Republican Party’s Antiquarian Road Show come convention-time next summer. Preferably somewhere in Harlem...
...NYPD has been essentially operating for the last three years without a new contract and had to organize a large protest in Times Square last summer just to get a retroactive contract for the previous two years, but which did not extend into the future. A police officer I was talking to on the New York subway this summer said he almost hopes that they don’t have a new contract by next summer so that they can have another rally during the Republican National Convention...
...lowest for large metropolitan forces in the country. Meanwhile this smaller, less experienced force has been asked to work harder covering everything from traffic accidents to counter-terrorism, to give up vacation days for further training in these far-flung fields, and all this without proper equipment or a contract...
...wealthy alums, we are students struggling to be heard about a problem that affects our college experience in a major way. Even if there are long-term plans to renovate the building, the University should open it now to any student groups that will sign a contract and treat it with as much respect and care as the three groups that currently use it. Let Harvard live up to its lofty tradition of commitment to the arts, and to student life, that has been the true spirit of the Hasty Pudding...
Edwards criticized President Bush’s decision to award an Iraq-rebuilding contract to Halliburton—a company which Vice President Dick Cheney once...