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...group of mostly minority laundry workers seeking to unionize has been battling Royal Institutional Services Inc...
Cabinet of the Phillips Brooks House Association, Inc. (PBHA), I welcome Judith Kidd as Public Service Dean for Harvard College. I see her appointment as an opportunity for PBHA to strengthen our identity and clarify our overall mission. I maintain great faith that Dean Lewis and the College have, above all, acted with the interests of the students and the communities we serve in mind...
...scores up. Less money would be spent on the bureaucracy, and more where it counted: on the students. And Hartford's public schools would maybe slowly raise themselves out of the gutter of the Connecticut school system. All this, and more, was hoped for last year when Education Alternatives, Inc. landed a five-year contract to run Hartford's entire 32-school district and its $200 million budget...
...magic bullet for the nation's ailing, bureaucratically entrenched public schools. Now it appears that the champions of privatization may have seriously underestimated the challenges--political, organizational and financial--of such radical change. Christopher Whittle's highly touted Edison Project has only four schools in operation. Education Alternatives, Inc., based in Bloomington, Minnesota, has signed no new clients in more than a year. Its contract to manage an elementary school in Miami Beach, Florida, expired last June; its nine-school project in Baltimore, Maryland, remains controversial, and its high-stakes deal in Hartford, the largest privatization experiment in the nation...
...Nevada jury ordered Dow Chemical Co. to pay $10 million in punitive damages to a woman who claimed severe injury after receiving silicone breast implants manufactured by Dow Corning, a company jointly owned by Dow Chemical and Corning Inc. Three days earlier, the jury had awarded $4.1 million to the woman in compensatory damages. As part of its defense strategy, Dow Chemical cited numerous studies that have failed to link silicone implants and health problems. A spokesman said the company would appeal...