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Cambridge’s city council took on so-called corporate injustice at its meeting in City Hall last night. The council passed a resolution in support of Saintely Paul, a Harvard janitor who was fired in June after his supervisor found him unconscious at work. Paul claims he had previously told his supervisor about his fainting spells, for which he was seeking medical attention. Paul addressed the council, recounting his story in his native Haitian Creole through an interpreter. “My supervisor came in and took a picture of me while I was unconscious...
...slew of past and present Undergraduate Council members, including Vice President Annie R. Riley ’07, hosted a workshop to inform women about campaigning for the Council in the newly-opened Women’s Center last night. The event was an effort to address the underrepresentation of women on the Undergraduate Council (UC). “The UC is supposed to be representative, and it works better when it is most representative of the student body,” Riley said. The workshop sought to “make women feel more comfortable running...
...distorted and dangerous international views.” No doubt they were simultaneously writing to Musharraf and Israel about their nuclear weapons.To be fair, the group did make mention of Khatami’s attempts at reform, rightfully highlighting how these efforts were often undermined by the unelected Guardian Council. But throughout the week of Khatami’s visit, all too many people and organizations demonstrated a blind acceptance of the Bush administration’s media barrage, which unrelentingly accuses Iran as the embodiment of pure evil. Apparently, the Republicans were overcome by crippling amnesia.Evidently, the HRC forgot...
Many parents may not mind their kids playing poker, but even those moms and dads know that there are risks. The biggest of those, namely, is the risk of addiction. Ed Looney, executive director of the Council of Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, says that as a rule of thumb, 80% of kids who start gambling will just dabble in it with no further harm, 15% will have some signs of problem gambling (playing past their budget, lying about losses), and 5% will become truly addicted...
...find another solid self-assessment, for kids as well as adults offered by the National Council on Problem Gambling here...