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Today, janitors face these same conditions and they risk meeting the same fate as the guards. Anyone who has spoken to janitors recently can attest to the fact that they are as demoralized as our guards last spring, just before the University broke their union and drove them out of our community. Janitors who have worked in our houses for as many as 20 years have told us that their wages have become so inadequate and their treatment so disrespectful that if Harvard offered them buy-out packages, they would take them...

Author: By Benjamin L. Mckean and Jonah G. Westerman, S | Title: Sharing the Wealth | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...Crimson piled into a bus on Friday afternoon and drove eight hours--including a grueling stretch on the New Jersey Turnpike--to the Navy Fall Intersectional at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sailing Rides Sparse Winds to Third Place Finish | 10/19/1999 | See Source »

...some in Syria, peace will come none too soon. One day recently, a teacher named Naim Khalil, 38, piled his wife and kids into the car and drove out to a dusty hillside west of Damascus. He looked past some barbed-wire fences and a minefield at some cousins standing on another ridge in the family village of Majdal Shams, under Israeli army control for 32 years. Holding up a battery-powered megaphone, he yelled out greetings and asked for the latest news. "I've been doing this since I was a boy," Khalil explains. "This is how I told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Syria: THE PEACE CONFLICT | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

David and Linda had grown up together in Chicago, and he had never given up on her. They kept in touch while David lived in Montana, and throughout the 1970s, as he taught high school English in Iowa, wrote an unpublished novel and drove a commuter bus near Chicago. But Linda eventually married another man. Faced with this reality, David slipped off to the wilderness--interestingly, not to Ted's Montana mountain area but to the Big Bend desert region of western Texas. He had $40,000 in savings and, like Ted, a vague plan to spend the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Don't Want To Live Long: Ted Kaczynski | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...Fernando Lamas said he drove to parties naked because he didn't want to crease his pants. You think he was really just looking for some attention from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Esther Williams | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

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