Word: defendents
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While at Harvard there is nary a whisper of discontent among graduate students, the Yale administration is preparing to defend itself against its own graduate students who lodged a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board for unfair labor practices during last spring's teaching assistant (TA) strike...
...truth, I have enjoyed my classes here. I like sitting in the back of the room. When I have tired of that, I have scoured the course catalog and have discovered some wonderful small courses. And mother Harvard would probably defend her record by saying she must sometimes neglect her young in order that great minds can think great thoughts for the world. But let her be frank about her priorities, for we who have sat in Sanders and Emerson 105 countless times will not be easily fooled...
...where those in power would prefer for the matter to be addressed. "Nothing can be solved in the streets," said Aleksandar Vulin of Mirjana Markovic's Yugoslav United Left, charging opposition members to end their boycott of parliament. "If (protests) continue forever . . . then you must expect the state to defend itself." But opposition leaders fear that Milosevic's parliamentary strategy is merely a front to buy himself more time. Estimating Wednesday that more than 300 people have been injured and 100 arrested in clashes with police this week, opposition leaders seemed to acknowledge that Milosevic may yet strike...
...Lars Erik Nelson's editorial in the Jan. 29 New York Daily News describes a pending lawsuit that is forcing the release of the names of people who were involved with the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. This commission was a racist organization that was created in the 1950s to defend states rights and white purity against desegregation. It members included redneck sheriffs and snitches, and it financially aided White Citizens Councils, another perversely racist organization whose members wore suits instead of sheets. One of the Commission's agents informed the Ku Klux Klan of the license plate number...
...victories last weekend in triumphs over Brown and Yale, respectively. The wins give Harvard (11-6 overall) a perfect 5-0 league record, having played all five games away from Lavietes Pavilion. With seven of their remaining nine Ivy contests to take place in Cambridge, the Crimson looks to defend its Ivy league title and advance to the NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive year...