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...organizers for the union employ coercive and aggressive tactics, visiting students multiple times at their homes, in their offices, and in their labs—even after students have expressly stated that they do not want to be visited or called. If an ex-boyfriend behaved this badly he would be called a stalker, and a restraining order would be granted. When several students in a social science department complained about frequent unwanted home visits, a GESO organizer responded by saying that he could not respect their requests—because he felt his message was too important...
...Internal Party Use Only" and purportedly distributed to senior Party officials late last year, the document asserts that the U.S., South Korea and Japan are besieging the North with pornographic videos, Hollywood movies and racy South Korean TV dramas. This, it warns, is "the underhanded method the imperialists employ along with military force to subvert and conquer a country...
...1990s. The innovation in weblog software is that engineers, like myself, have learned how to make writing for the Web easier, while the users have become more familiar with networking. In the future both trends should continue, and weblogs will do more, as will the writers who employ them...
...most enjoyable entertainments on a luxury cruise is observing the flirty machinations some passengers will employ to wangle an invitation to sit at the captain's table. Davien and I, as supernumeraries, sat there for every meal. The master of the Ingrid Oldendorff is Oleksandr Ponomarenko, a tall, handsome Ukrainian man, who genially introduces himself as Alex but is never called anything but "Captain." Like many intelligent seamen, he has a melancholy disposition, which he constantly tries to lighten with humor...
Novartis wooed Harvard Medical School professor Mark Fishman to head up their Cambridge facilities and to recruit fellow academics to join the Novartis labs—which, executives estimate, will employ about 1,000 people, all told...