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...this week to strike on Nov. 9 if the administration continues its refusal to participate in 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...
...days last week, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi set aside his responsibilities as the nation's leader and took up another, more difficult role: that of a grieving husband. Abdullah's wife of four decades, Endon Mahmood, died on Oct. 20 at age 64 after a four-year battle with breast cancer. In a relatively conservative country with a Muslim majority, the couple were known for their public displays of affection, often hugging or bestowing pecks on each other's cheeks. During the funeral, Abdullah, 65, did his best to appear stoic. Wearing a traditional black songkok...
...year-old waitress that wide receiver Michael Irvin held a gun to her head as she was sexually assaulted by offensive tackle Erik Williams and another man, unidentified, in Williams' home after the Viking game. Bad news is nothing new to the Cowboys, who have already endured the drug suspensions of Irvin, defensive end Shante Carver and defensive tackle Leon Lett last year, or to the players in question. Irvin, arrested for drug possession last spring while in a motel room with an ex-teammate and two "self-employed models," is currently in the first year of a four-year...
...guiding vision for the future.In interviews with The Crimson, HBS professors said Datar was a frontrunner for the deanship, along with six other frequently mentioned candidates, four of whom are currently working at HBS.University President Lawrence H. Summers will select the new HBS dean in consultation with a 15-member faculty advisory committee. Of the six deans Summers has named to lead Harvard’s faculties during his four-year tenure, five have come from within Harvard.The central issues likely to face the next dean of HBS include defining the fundamental meaning of a graduate business education, resolving...
...Egyptian lawyer and diplomat who has led the Agency since 1997 and was recently reelected to a third four-year term, has not enjoyed the full confidence of the Bush administration, which initially sought to have him replaced when his second term expired. ElBaradei fell afoul of the administration in 2002, when the U.S. was seeking UN support for action against Iraq. The Bush case was not helped by ElBaradei telling the Security Council that his inspectors had found "no evidence" that Saddam Hussein had reconstituted a nuclear program...