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...dining services contract is only the latest in a string of bargaining successes for Manning. While Harvard has historically been rife with labor strife, Manning has, in the first round of new contracts since his arrival at Harvard, managed to ink deals with the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) and the police union without a strike. Both of those unions had proved contentious in negotiating their previous contracts
...remember the first shirt I acquired in college. The black ink on white fabric design that commemorated a week of sweating and cutting weeds in an overgrown lot in Roxbury gave an auspicious start to my collection...
...style democracy, one must seek it not in the political system but in the new openness of Russian society. It can be glimpsed in the marches against the war in Chechnya by mothers of draft-age men, in the anti-Kremlin diatribes printed by tabloids that leave an unpleasant ink smudge on the fingers. There are less appetizing signs as well in the thuggish youths wearing gym suits who hawk alcohol and cigarettes in sheet-metal kiosks, keeping one step ahead of the law, and in the smug young bankers who make million-dollar deals in currency exchange...
...owner Marty Peretz's long list to replace Andrew Sullivan, who left three weeks ago, you may never eat lunch in this town again. Peretz says he's moving "methodically," which is understandable. No owner wants to rush that enchanted period that makes red-ink publishing more rewarding than real estate, when a publisher gets to dangle one of the great prizes in American letters before the hungry eyes of the country's best journalists. Being able to woo and win Tina Brown as editor of the New Yorker is what makes losing money palatable for publishers such...
...Sung painters, their renderings of mountain landscape--awesome in scale but without theatrical drama, the bare crags rising in swirls and convulsions of gray ink as the background to intensely seen trees and tiny human figures--achieved a relationship between notation and object that would make any draftsman, Eastern or Western, faint with envy. The blots, scribbles, hatchings, scumblings and flicks of the brush build up a world of microforms that seems at once abstract and dense with specific experience. No wonder Beijing wants all this back; no wonder Taipei is determined to keep...