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...would pluck sufferers from the crowd, name their ailments, touch them—and they would fall over and lie twitching on the carpeted floor of whatever Connecticut high school auditorium her constantly cash-strapped organization had rented out that night. Sometimes they spoke in tongues. (Sometimes my parents did??which is more embarrassing than you can imagine...
...thought my mom brought me to school too early. She did??probably years too early,” Bridges said...
...first demanded by the union. The contract has some major accomplishments; the new health insurance plan does not require worker contributions and Harvard has agreed to offer parity wages to its non-union janitors. Still, if Tuesday’s civil disobedience had the effect the union claims it did??of embarrassing Harvard into accepting union demands—one wonders how much the union sacrificed in wage hikes because they could not threaten a strike...
...events of Sept. 11, which have made America safe for serious rhetoric for the first time, perhaps, since the close of the Cold War. But still, it is to his credit that in a series of speeches, Summers has done something that the verbally-challenged Rudenstine never did??namely, discuss the moral responsibility that the University bears to the United States, which is (according to Summers) similar to those borne by any American citizen. In the cloistered and reflexively anti-American world of academe, these are radical and refreshing words indeed...
Harvard’s past may have helped PSLM as well. Bartley points to the pressure of alumni as something that forced the University administration to finally cave in to their demands: “If the New York Times calls Harvard greedy—which they did??it has a tremendous ripple effect on alumni. I would like to think that we changed the corporation’s mind on the issue, but more importantly, perhaps, we changed their calculations on how the institution would be affected by this action...