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...union is now demanding a goal of 70 percent be written into the next contract.Wrinn said the 49 percent rate represents “good progress” toward the target, but noted that the low turnover rate among Harvard’s janitors makes it difficult to hire more full-time workers. Since the 2002 contract negotiation, annual turnover has ranged from 4.8 percent to 8.7 percent.“Harvard can’t create a new full-time position until two part-time jobs open up,” he explained.—Staff writer Candice...
...educated him on women's issues. In 1997, Magid became imam of a mosque just west of Washington called ADAMS, an acronym for All Dulles Area Muslim Society. An imam can be a layman sufficiently versed in the Koran to lead daily prayers, but larger, more established mosques hire professional imams, comparable to Christian ministers or Jewish rabbis, who are trained in Islamic seminaries or mentored by scholars...
...Still, when rich Chinese hire a security detail, protection isn't always their primary concern. Cui Fengxian, a Beijing lawyer, founded Beijing Capital Bodyguard Security Consultants, which in 2002 was the first firm of its kind to receive government approval to do business, because he believed China lacked adequate means to protect its richest citizens. Now he estimates that about 30% of his 200 clients hire his guards-all former secret-service members-for "ornamental" reasons. Cui travels with eight bodyguards himself and dresses them in long leather coats. "It's a question of image," he says. "[These...
...martial-arts academies, they find work through friends or former teachers. Ding Zhongmin, a kickboxing expert who runs the Yingcai Bodyguard Training Center in Nanjing, says he schools 100 bodyguards a year in everything from punching to "polite conversation and what you should wear in an office." Clients often hire Ding and his students to resolve business disputes that in many countries would be dealt with by the police or resolved in court. He and his crew recently rescued a coal-mine owner in Xi'an who had been kidnapped by a colleague who believed he was owed money. After...
...even criminal charges don’t intimidate some Harvard students. Joe said he thinks that even if he were to be arrested, he would easily be able to get out of it by having his parents hire good lawyers and by using a bit of his own legal savvy...