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...Bourbon Street didn’t demand the kind of manual labor performed in devastated neighborhoods. Still, supporting Bourbon Street was another way for the students to sustain New Orleans. Tourism drew $5 billion of spending to New Orleans in 2004, and the Big Easy will need many of those visitors if it is to rise again...
That spring, activists from the Progressive Student Labor Movement had occupied Mass. Hall for three weeks to demand that Harvard pay its workers—including dining hall employees—salaries that matched the increasing cost of living in the Boston region. But the part-time producers say they were fortunate enough to be pulling $11 or $12 an hour already at Leverett, a significant improvement on their previous jobs...
...what their flaws. Even though Harvard's lecturers might be highly qualified scholars, I had to re-evaluate my expectation of enjoying a better relationship with them after reading Lemann's Essay. It was enlightening news that I very much appreciate. Bata Yahaya Mshelia Borno, Nigeria A Man in Demand Re "Can he make peace bloom?" [March 20]: it is crucial that U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad succeed in persuading Iraq's sectarian leaders to revive the political process so the new government can focus on rebuilding the country. The Iraqi people are losing patience with the lack...
...word processing software. But the thanks to the early open standardization of the web, the thought of its belonging to any one company now seems absurd to us—Facebook uses it, Google uses it, universities use it, and each in its own way. Only when we demand that Microsoft and Apple and others play nice with one another—only when they’ve made their specifications into open standards—will we come to see web-style explosive innovation in the various markets they control...
RELEASED. JILL CARROLL, 28, U.S. journalist abducted in January by Iraqi gunmen who threatened to kill her if their demand?that all female detainees in Iraq be released?was not met; after 82 days and protests from leaders worldwide; on a Baghdad street. After her release Carroll said: "I am happy to be free and want to be with my family...