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...cool. "People were just, like, 'That's a bad idea,'" he recalls. "The concept of having your values embedded in everything you did in your business ... was just not happening in any major way at all." Nonetheless, with just $100,000 from family, friends and a few supportive idealists, Equal Exchange was born in 1986 in a 2,000-sq.-ft. room in Boston's South End. Today copresident Dickinson boasts a 77,000-sq.-ft. facility outside Boston, a full-time staff of 80 and a 33% average annual growth rate over 19 years...
...been to the hopes of young Arab men and women who really want to become integrated into their adopted country. Jayant Gala Brossard, Canada The rage expressed night after night by alienated youth dealt a crushing blow to France's self-image as a model of tolerance and social equality. Could such riots occur in Canada, a nation of immigrants, many of whom face severe economic challenges and are excluded from Canadian society? We must make sure that Canada's educational system imparts a sense of shared values and that there are real equal opportunities for all. Syed Waris Shere...
...anticipated ruling on the Solomon Amendment will likely end one era of a troubled relationship between Harvard and the military. By all accounts, the Supreme Court is ready to uphold the controversial law, permitting the Pentagon to suspend all federal funding to universities that deny “equal access” to military recruiters. Although Harvard has periodically suspended and reinstated recruiters’ access in the past, based on the law’s status in the appeals system, the Supreme Court’s expected ruling will add a note of finality to the oft-tumultuous relationship...
Their hope rests on a close reading of the statute in question, a law mandating that schools receiving federal funds give military recruiters “equal access” to campus...
...sign the pledge. A brief submitted to the high court in September by the former acting solicitor general, Walter E. Dellinger III, and 40 Harvard professors contends that the law schools’ policies don’t violate the Solomon Amendment’s “equal access” provision because all recruiters—not just the military—face the same nondiscrimination requirement...