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...arguments that support the living wage but condemn the sit-in and the PSLM’s tactics have focused on the sit-in as an ineffective means. The Crimson, for one, believes the PSLM should leave because its tactics are “more likely to harden the administration’s resolve” than accomplish the goal of $10.25 per hour plus benefits. Perhaps, but that’s still not the issue...
...protesters have still disrupted administrators’ access to their offices, and we are very concerned by reports of increasing harassment of secretaries and other support staff working within the building—Harvard workers in whose interest PSLM has campaigned. Such harassment is more likely to harden the administration’s resolve than to weaken it; indeed, the central administration has continued its refusal to negotiate while the protesters are still within the building...
...Harden-if you're from New York, you know that's Latin for 'excited sissy'"-about Best Supporting Actress winner Marcia Gay Harden...
...Chinese - and it's palpably clear that visible forms of pressure are more likely to make them dig in their heels. But he may be helped by the fact that President Jiang may share an interest in speedily resolving the crisis, because a drawn-out standoff will likely harden both Chinese and American public opinion, further diminishing the leaders' room for maneuver...
...between their ministerial portfolios and their mayor's seats. Other changes may be in the offing, as the strong showing of the Greens and the collapse of the Communists may lead Jospin to give the ecologists more weight in his coalition - at the risk of seeing the disgruntled Communists harden their positions on social issues...