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...pressure from the powers that be. What were they doing allowing this kid to come into Charlotte with both guns blazing?" Partly in response to this uproar, the editors moved Marlette's cartoons to the Op-ed page, where they could more clearly be seen as distinct from the opinion of the newspaper itself...
...order for the NLRB to approve District 65's request for an election, at least 30 per cent of the employees must submit cards to the Board saying they favor unionization. The NLRB must then determine that the group of employees has a distinct "community of interests...
...union's first drive, the NLRB ruled that Med Area workers had distinct interests from other University clerical and technical personnel--a move that surprised Harvard officials...
...university such as Harvard, whose traditions, food, social life, arts, and academics are so overwhelmingly Eurocentric, there is little institutional support for Asian Americans to explore and clarify our own distinct identities and experiences. Many of Harvard's Asian students come from suburbs where we were among the few Asians in our neighborhoods. We have had few role models from whom to gather pride in our history and heritage--we learn to relate exclusively to the majority experience and wish to be white. For those of us who have grown up in Asian communities our alienation and culture shock...
...dream Europe that he could never bring himself to visit. He spent most of his working life in a frame house on Utopia Parkway in Queens, N.Y., which he shared with his mother and his brother Robert, who had been crippled in childhood by cerebral palsy. It was a distinct comedown from his earlier years, when his father (also Joseph), who died in 1917, supported his family in elegance by buying and designing textiles. From that domestic seclusion, the gray and long-beaked man would sally forth on small voyages of discovery: to Central Park in the snow, to Times...