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Commuter rage gave way to relief this morning after labor mediators convinced striking New York City transit workers to return their jobs without a contract. That deal was reached on Thursday afternoon. Cursing the walkout had become a bloodsport for New Yorkers in the last three days, but at the 116th Street station in uptown Manhattan, the strike end brought a quick return to normalcy. Commuters streamed past the single station agent with barely a glance, while a couple of French tourists hovered nervously nearby before asking the agent for change for a $20. They were denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back on Track But at What Cost? | 12/23/2005 | See Source »

After a cocaine scandal led Chanel, H&M and Burberry to sever ties with KATE MOSS, the iconically thin supermodel went from rehab to the cover of French Vogue and landed a new contract with Virgin Mobile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Life Gives You Lemons ... | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...gains in services would require a trade-off, with students either forfeiting some current services or paying a higher board rate. HUDS anticipates that its operating costs will likely increase by $1,760,550 in the coming year as a result of the expense of renegotiating its labor contract and the rising cost of food and utilities. The proposed increase in the board rate for the 2006-2007 academic year will cover $834,010. The meeting is the first of two planned discussions before the sub-committee will report to the CHL with a proposal aimed at solving what...

Author: By Joshua P. Rogers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE NEWS IN BRIEF | 12/16/2005 | See Source »

Since his graduation day forty years ago, Malick’s genius and idiosyncratic personality have given him a completely unique place in modern film. The 62-year-old Malick does not agree to interviews with the press and his contract stipulates that no current photos of him can be released for publicity. The timeline of his life, or what the public knows of it, is mainly a series of basic facts, interrupted about once every decade by the release of a revolutionary movie...

Author: By Hayes H. Davenport, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alumni Watch: Terrence Malick '65 | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

These are the girls that I will see grow old. These are the girls I will stand by no matter what happens, until they contract terminal cancer...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Best of Endpapers | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

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