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...students agree on the basic premise that our own personal connection to a campus worker should not determine what happens to her if she is treated unjustly, we must insist that Harvard protect the rights of all workers, not just the most visible ones, and enforce a labor code of conduct to this...
...know that American pop star Madonna would be taking his son "for good" when she came to adopt him earlier this month (a claim government officials dispute). But Yohane Banda tells TIME that his son is now better off and he would be "killing" David's future to insist his son returns...
...Madonna's disciples have their work cut out for them as they set out to defend her. No, the adoption was not illegal, they insist, she had not pulled strings, "bought" a baby; no, he was not just her latest accessory, this was not Western imperialism run amok, she would honor his heritage. Yes, it is true that as Madonna's child he will never have a normal life, but then his life was all too perfectly normal where he came from; a mother dead soon after childbirth, two brothers lost to malaria, a majority of the population living...
Jamila R. Martin ’07, SLAM member and coordinator of the activist center located at 45 Mt. Auburn St., describes SLAM as a welcoming organization. "We are open to all. We don’t insist on any specific doctrine. We strive for consensus in a non-coercive way," she says. Indeed, her perspective seems to support Usmani’s claim that the students should be coming to them, not the other way around...
...phone companies don't favor the House's pretexting bill because of its broad (and still vague) requirements that they implement new security measures for access to customer records and file regular reports of any suspicious activity. Phone carriers would be fined if they don't comply, and they insist they already have every motivation to continuously update their methods to keep data safe. As an alternative, they support other stalled bills that have emerged from the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, which outlaw pretexting, but nothing more. "It seems like they're penalizing the wrong parties here," said Jeffrey...