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...Latino immigrant workers at Smithfield, the world's largest hog-processing plant, are not union members. But a month ago nearly 1,000 of them walked off the job for two days, protesting hundreds of recent firings in a crackdown on undocumented workers. The company quickly capitulated and agreed to rehire the workers, and made other concessions, like meeting with the workers' representatives and agreeing that no one would be disciplined for the walkout...
...police crackdown was nowhere near akin to the 1969 police storming of University Hall or other events of police brutality across the nation. However, changes and compromises need to be made. Although students and police might never agree on noise, alcohol, and public decency laws, a middle ground can be found, so that a Lion King-like “Circle of Life” equilibrium can be reached. And in the vast Serengeti of the Charles River, the lions and water-buffalo can once again be at peace?...
...prisons release an average of630,000 inmates each year, and that number will rise for the foreseeable future as more and more sentences run out from arrests made during the Reagan Administration's war on drugs in the 1980s and the zero-tolerance crackdown in the '90s. Calculate in average recidivism rates of 40% for those released from federal penitentiaries and 67% for those who leave state facilities, and it's clear that more crimes are being committed because there are simply more criminals around to commit them. Says Milwaukee district attorney E. Michael McCann: "We're charging...
...Beijing. Promoted to general for his role in aiding North Korea, Hong was purged in 1959 for his ties to opponents of Chairman Mao Zedong. Rehabilitated in the 1970s, he was pushed out again in 1989 for reportedly opposing the use of force during the bloody Tiananmen crackdown. Numbers 1,348 days Length of U.S. involvement in World War II, a milestone the U.S. involvement in Iraq passed on Nov. 26 406,000 Number of U.S. soldiers killed during World War II. More than 2,860 American soldiers have died in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion...
...this fact, that both in France and much of the rest of Europe the veils in question are worn by such a small minority of Muslim women, that makes the crackdown seem downright obsessive. Supporters of such action counter that veils symbolize a subordination of women, and that they challenge or threaten more progressive Muslim women who decline the veil. Such arguments might sound convincing until one bothers listen to women wearing those same veils, and their earnest explanations that the coverings symbolize modesty, humility, devotion to their faith, and subservience to no one but their god. Unless all these...