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Better make it traveler?s checks this time, Frank. Kathie Lee Gifford, perpetually and ostentatiously horrified at the injustices in the world, faces making yet another conciliatory gesture to workers producing her Kathie Lee line of clothing. Tuesday morning, three years after the perky talk-show host and her husband handed out checks to unpaid Kathie Lee employees in a New York garment factory, two women announced they were fired from their jobs in an abusive El Salvadoran sweatshop, allegedly for raising the issue of workers? rights. The two women also allege that attempts to unionize have been met with...
...Pebble Gifford, a Cambridge resident and president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund described the truck problem as a longstanding one for Cambridge...
...Gifford, three Starbucks in the relativelysmall vicinity of Harvard Square was one too many.And although ultimately the HSDF lost their appealto the zoning board, she remains committed tofighting the uniformity of urban areas...
...Gifford sees Harvard Square as an institutionthat needs to be protected from the rampantexcesses of pre-millennial commercialism, a trendthat she noted even on vacation in England whereshe visited Stratford-on-Avon, the birthplace ofboth William Shakespeare and John Harvard'smother...
...Gifford was appalled to see an American-stylestrip mall lining the main street of the quaintlittle village, complete with McDonald's, BurgerKing and Pizza...