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...whose every move is tactical, Gorbachev is intent on one overriding goal, stability, for the country and himself. In a speech last month in Minsk, he told workers, "I am decisively in favor of political and economic stabilization, for strengthening order, so that authority is authority and not jelly." He now favors a "stable political coalition of centrist forces" that will include more than the Communist Party but exclude radical democratic groups. He apparently envisions parliament and national politics as Communist- dominated but co-opting enough dissent to keep the comrades on their toes. "It is necessary to turn...
...during the “Justice for Janitors” campaign, over 700 Harvard college students supported the janitors in their fight for better wages, and the Undergraduate Council (UC) voted in favor of the “Resolution in Support of Workers at Harvard.” Last year, over 1,150 students filled out comment cards demanding that dining hall workers receive fair treatment in their June 2006 contract negotiations...
...students who voted in the referendum this week, 2,914 cast a ballot in favor of a UC proposal that would also extend winter break to four weeks and have the spring final exam period end more than a week earlier. Meanwhile, 549 students voted against the proposal, Petersen said...
...full and informed discussion in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, where it is well known that a wide range of opinion obtains on this subject. That the Undergraduate Council could suggest that student opinion and a decision of the Governing Boards serve to settle this matter in favor of the Council’s own proposal fails to take into account that faculty have fully as much at stake in the calendar discussions as do students. There are some, and I count myself among them, who think that our calendar with its January examinations actually poses some pedagogical advantages...
...ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, for example, he argues that Christian-American faith works to support the Israelis, while economic concerns fall in favor of the Arabs. Rather than informing the American people about the Middle East, popular depictions by everyone from Mark Twain to Edith Wharton to Disney tend to propagate a fantastic image of the region...