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...sensitive Japanese officials were upset. The World Labor Report, published by the Geneva-based International Labor Office, cites karoshi as one of the consequences of stress at work. The report also contains a survey that says more than 40% of Japanese fear they may work themselves into an early grave. The Japanese Ministry of Labor questions the report's data and is filing a formal protest with the International Labor Office. Here's hoping ministry officials won't work too hard getting the report corrected...
...Bosnia has been an issue for us since the beginning of the year. I'm glad the conference has raised awareness and made people realize the grave situation in Bosnia," said Omar M. Maabreh '94, president of H.I.S., which co-sponsored "A Day for Bosnia...
...writing in response to Sebastian Conley's cartoon--yes, cartoons--of April 9, 1993. While I normally appreciate Conley's daring lampoons of everything from Harvard life to the Clinton Administration, I found his personal attack on "Natasha" to be a grave misuse of your newspaper. Even the cartoon page should not serve as a pulpit for the sort of childish vituperation perpetrated by Conley...
...practice for innocent minors to be "bound out," or indentured, to hardscrabble farmers, often by their own parents. They were deprived of hope, happiness and the dreams of childhood until they died, escaped or earned their freedom at 21. For many, the psychic scars of servitude lasted till the grave...
Baseball is indeed facing a grave crisis, but it is primarily political and not economic in nature -- a question of governance and power relations rather than the law of supply and demand run amuck. The vacant office of the commissioner of baseball symbolizes the void at the center of the game; the post has remained unfilled since a majority of owners forced the resignation of Fay Vincent last September. Vincent's so-called sins included his prickly independence and his determination to use his powers to act "in the best interests of baseball" and his aborted attempt to limit...