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While such flip-flopping would seem to forecast inconsistency, the squad seems to have ended up as the big winners in the game of revolving coaches...
Recently, one of the groups most hard hit by the flip side of the recovery, the American manufacturing workers, are beginning to strike back--literally. The first signs of this awakening appeared at the beginning of the summer when clothing employees walked out of several factories in the heartland of the Massachusetts textile industry. Some of the New Bedford and Fall River clothing workers were out for six weeks to block a management attempt to take unilateral control over wage setting. The workers were successful, and as they returned to work, shipbuilders in Maine followed the lead of Bay State...
...didn't think that science or math or foreign languages were going to help me turn out the little 8-mm sagas I was making to avoid homework. During class I'd draw a little image on the margin of each page of the history or lit. book and flip the pages to make animated cartoons. I did just enough homework to get promoted every year with my friends and not fall to the wrath of my academically minded father. I give my dad credit for singlehandedly keeping my math grades high enough so I wouldn't be held back...
With their studded leather jackets, their taste for swastikas and grisly death's-heads, their pulsing choppers, their scraggly beards and their penchant for violence, the Hell's Angels in the 1960s became the nightmarish flip side of the American dream. During the 1970s, however, they attempted to scrub their outlaw image, depicting themselves as a peaceable, nationwide "family" united by a love of the open road. Last week, as some 1,000 heavily armed law-enforcement agents in 50 locations around the country swooped down and arrested more than 100 Angels, the once chaotic band of bikers was depicted...
...choosing to cover protests rather than events probing the South African issue's complexity The Crimson's recent flip-flop on its editorial position toward divestment demonstrates that the issues involved are indeed complex and that students can benefit from further examination and discussion of the South African dilemma. The Institute of Politics will be sponsoring two more panel discussions on South Africa--I hope the rest of the Harvard community, it not The Crimson will be present. Peter T. Gelfman...