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...part, President Vincente Fox of Mexico gave a nose count suggesting 29 of 34 nations assembled here still favor an FTAA even if major nations like Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina do not. The heads of state will issue a final communique soon, as they meet across town at the Hermitage Hotel, safely away from the protesters. As with all these kinds of events, U.S. officials will pour out of the meeting declaring whatever statement emerges as a major victory. Stay tuned...
...there is the abortion-rights litmus test. Despite the shrill cries of the left-wing Cassandras—who have rushed to condemn Alito as a fire-breathing Roe-overturning conservative—he has a decidedly nuanced record. In his four abortion-related cases, he has ruled in favor of abortion rights three times. Even in the exception, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Alito merely ruled that spousal notification was not an “undue burden” on a woman’s right to an abortion, given that the law provided exemptions for unusual cases such...
...contract negotiations.The Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC)—which is affiliated with United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2110—has been without a contract since Aug. 31, when its original four-year agreement with NYU expired.Eighty-five percent of the members of GSOC voted in favor of setting the Nov. 9 strike deadline, according to committee member and NYU teaching assistant Susan Valentine. The strikes comes after GSOC had declined a contract proposal from NYU. The proposed contract would have given the university the authority to unilaterally change its graduate students’ wages, health coverage...
...news that the Harvard Concert Commission’s (HCC) Nov. 6 Wyclef Jean concert has been cancelled is sure to arouse both disappointment and disbelief across the Harvard community. We were genuinely excited at the concert’s prospects for success when we editorialized in favor of it last week, and we are disillusioned by the recent turn of events...
...Despite his peripatetic path, Seidel’s political ambition is a local one. The odds are not in his favor, though...