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Many cities are doing just that. Portland and Seattle are at the forefront of the national anti-panhandling movement. As Seattle Mayor Charles Royer conceded last year, "It became clear that while we have some people who are hurting, there are some who are hurting us." The city passed an ordinance last fall making "aggressive begging" punishable by as much as 90 days in jail and a $500 fine. Minneapolis lawmakers followed suit in February, ruling that no person shall "grab, follow, or engage in conduct which reasonably tends to arouse alarm or anger in others." Portland has also passed...
Polish workers once again were at the forefront of the challenge to the authority of nervous regimes torn between the risks of change and the dangers of maintaining the status quo. A wave of strikes in Poland that closed down at least 22 enterprises employing more than 110,000 workers amounted to the most serious outbreak of unrest in Eastern Europe since the nationwide strikes eight years ago that gave rise to the now banned trade union Solidarity and ended with the imposition of martial...
Ultimately, Against Therapy amounts to an impassioned diatribe against the very idea of society. Masson does not make this animus particularly clear, but it surfaces occasionally, particularly in his concluding chapter: "Historically therapists have never been in the forefront of the struggle for social change. It is not in the interest of the profession to create conditions that would lead to the dissolution of psychotherapy." This is dime-store utopianism: people would not be unhappy anymore if the world were nicer. And Masson bristles at the notion of control: "Once we give anybody the right to decide who or what...
...University's excellence as an employer has come under question in recent years. This issue moved to the forefront this spring as the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) waged an all-out campaign to organize the University's nearly 4000 support staff workers. HUCTW won by a narrow margin, but pending an investigation of alleged unfair campaign tactics, the future of collective bargaining remains uncertain for Harvard's clerical staff...
Pennoyer sees Harvard's offense moving to the forefront of the program in years to come. Freshman Mickey Cavouti and sophomore David Kramer will lead the offensive attack into the 1990s. Even without the Triple Towers, the defense, too, should remain solid, Pennoyer says. He'll be there on the sidelines to make sure...