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Janitors, dining hall workers, and security guards came together yesterday to demand better labor policies in an event organized by the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), the newest activism organization on campus...
While mutual funds maintain a certain price for the entire day of trading, the shares of closed-end funds fluctuate in price according to supply and demand, like most publicly-traded stocks...
...right, to work on legislation on the rare issues where they agree. (One recent bill provides $90 million to research the effects of video games on the cognitive development of children.) Obama is now working with Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, one of the chamber?s most conservative members, to demand that President Bush appoint someone to act as a chief financial officer to oversee Katrina spending. Clinton, who focused mainly on domestic policy issues before she entered the Senate, has emerged as a key player on defense issues; Obama is expanding his horizons with foreign policy. When Katrina hit, Obama...
...factors have brought about what Macgregor calls "the contemporary moment" now flourishing on both sides of the Tasman. In Auckland, it was an antiquated building at odds with the growing demand and stature of modern art - a problem embarrassingly revealed when the gallery was unable to accommodate Michael Stevenson's Trekka car from the Venice Biennale because of insufficient space. Director Saines expects visitor numbers to double to 500,000 a year when the new gallery opens in 2009. In Brisbane, says director Hall, the catalyst was government-driven "cultural diplomacy," putting the state's engagement with Asia...
...limited space available on campus, and undergraduates have limited political capital in claiming portions of it. Building a women’s center means displacing worthier endeavors. And acquiescing to a separate women’s center will, sadly, be treated by the administration as an amelioration of the demand for a larger student center. Altogether, even after many years of pressing for a women’s center, the groups advocating for it still have not articulated its usefulness, other than to say that other Ivy League schools have one and, thus, Harvard should...