Word: dimaggio
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...We’re trying to show our support for Harvard’s security guards,” says PSLM member Daniel DiMaggio ’04. “We’re sick and tired of Harvard attacking its unions and its workforce...
...playing careers as with the diamond-shape holes baseball left in their lives when they left the game. Halberstam, whose previous subjects include Vietnam and Bill Clinton, focuses on the four players who formed the core of a powerhouse Boston lineup in the 1940s: Johnny Pesky, Bobby Doerr, Dominic DiMaggio (kid brother to Joltin' Joe) and the troubled, tyrannical genius Ted Williams, the last man to finish a season with a batting average over...
...curtain rises on the twilight of the boyhood idols: in October 2001. Williams, "the Splendid Splinter," was on his deathbed in Florida. Pesky and DiMaggio, both in their 80s, embarked on a 1,300-mile car trip to visit him. Halberstam braids together the story of their road trip--that other great American pastime--with an account of their bittersweet seasons as Red Sox. Though they played as a foursome from 1942 to 1951, minus a few years for World War II, they never won a World Series, and in 1949 they lost the pennant to the New York Yankees...
...Harvard committee recommended that the workers receive more educational opportunities in lieu of a salary increase. Neither PSLM nor unions found this sufficient. “Workers should have both good wages and access to education,” says PSLM’s Daniel Dimaggio ’04. “Yes, there has been progress, but it is still difficult to work at Harvard in order to pay for all the things you need to live in Boston...
...surprised because I thought we had made progress,” DiMaggio said. “This course desperately needs an alternative. Currently, we are getting one particular type of economics, economics at expense of the poor for the rich...It channels people to think in a certain way, and since a lot of people only take Ec 10, that is their only exposure to economic classes...