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...contract, with fewer than 10 workers voting against it, according to SEIU Local 615 spokeswoman Courtney Snegroff. “People are very satisfied,” she said. Harvard spokesman Joe Wrinn said last week that Harvard considered the contract’s terms “fair to both the University and the custodians,” calling it “an acceptable middle ground.” Negotiators from Harvard and the SEIU Local 615 first sat down at the table on Sept. 22 and vetted 60 different proposals during 14 negotiating sessions, according to Wrinn...
...watching him regale a group with tales of everything from Lyndon Johnson's hydra-headed shower to the old Yale baseball mitt that the first President Bush kept in his desk in the Oval Office. People-important people, ordinary people-liked to tell Hugh things. He was trustworthy and fair-minded, and they could sense that. For all his time in Washington, Hugh never lost touch with his roots in Iowa and kept an abiding curiosity about the whole great middle of this country. On campaign trips, he moved easily from the candidate's cabin to the fringes...
...interested in the history of Africa. Last year saw a lengthy stay in Tanzania and a summer-long visit to Ghana. My Swahili is solid, and my French is ready to be improved. Things poised as they are, academia is not out of the question.But like many upperclassmen, a fair bit of existential anxiety has lately welled up in me. Here’s my problem: I love history, but I am ambivalent about becoming an academic—the whitest of white-collar professionals, whose usefulness to society at large is questionable, who at worst appears to live...
...brand (www.cioccolatina.co.uk). Adherents are gluttons for her Tiramisu body butter, Rooibos soap, Ashanti Gold soap and La Mocha body scrub?and enjoy a clear conscience as well as clear skin. The shea and other ingredients come from individual Ghanaian producers or farmer-run co-ops; sellers are guaranteed a fair price. Since 2004 Wood has imported ingredients in bulk for other European cosmetics manufacturers, too (www.akuawood.co.uk). And shea? It's her biggest seller, her bread-and-butter business...
...critics. Europe wants to exclude some products from its tariff cuts, and the U.S. proposal would effectively ease subsidies 2% by renaming existing supports or disguising them as other payments. "It's a case of smoke and mirrors," says C?line Charveriat, head of Oxfam's Make Trade Fair campaign. "If this offer goes ahead, trade-distorting domestic subsidies will remain almost completely unchanged...