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...Hicks, a former cook in the Harvard Union dining hall, was fired last month by Director of Dining Services Michael P. Berry. Hicks was a union steward who often clashed with management, and Reuss is part of a student group that has charged that Hick's firing was motivated by racism and an attempt to break the union...
...tells Qiu Ju he's written six of these; two of the recipients were subsequently shot, he says, and four got life sentences.) To impress the officials, Qiu Ju gives them fruit and buys an ill-fitting striped jacket that unfortunately makes her look even more like a hick chick from the sticks. All to wipe that smirk off the village chief's face -- and to save hers...
...Confer, the Nebraska native." The one who got her own paragraph explaining that she thought Harvard was nicer than Yale because Harvard seemed to have more trees. The one who made the astute observation that while Lincoln, Nebraska, wasn't exactly a "hick town," it was "much smaller than Boston...
Back in the Eisenhower era, as one undergraduate put it, Yalies viewed the future as "Stairway to Heaven, moving up through the clouds on a blissful escalator." Trillin, a strangely appealing mixture of Jewish arriviste and Midwestern hick, entered college without ever having heard of Dostoyevsky or Greenwich, and he figured to stop ascending early in the journey. Denny was expected to keep on climbing. Champion athlete, top-ranking student, Rhodes scholar, subject of a Life magazine piece, he was discussed seriously as a potential candidate for the presidency. Forty years later, after a life of obscurity and pain...
...Harvard Radcliffe Labor Alliance, a student groups, has been talking with dining hall workers and is planning to meet with Berry and to start a position campaign in Hick's behalf...