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...papers, everything, just like that - how can it be that people don?t know the truth?? says Junker, who grew up in a German enclave of Romania and served in the Waffen-SS during the war, then came to the U.S. in 1955, worked as a janitor and handyman in Chicago and became a citizen some five years later. ?I?d wake up in the middle of the night and it would hit me. Because for 60 years it was taught one way. I said a long time ago I would do something about it, but I was farming...
...Democratic National Committee trumpeted that as a "demotion" of Rove. But people close to the President said focusing on the fine points of policy was not a good use of Rove?s mind, time or expertise. "Karl could be called the janitor and his role with the President would not change," said a Bush friend. Bolten allies said he wants clear lines of authority and accountability, and said the announcement showed his assertiveness, since Card had deferred to Rove on many matters that are traditionally the purview of the Chief of Staff...
...known, up-to-date, and easy to use for anyone who even suspects that he or she has been harassed or assaulted—or not. If things don’t change, scribbles will continue to be consigned to the backs of cubicle doors, and perhaps the same janitor will be told to clean them off again. Emily C. Ingram ’08, a Crimson editor, is an English concentrator in Eliot House...
...legislative items. Doing so would allow the UC to use referenda as a crutch when it feels like avoiding particularly divisive or hairy issues. Moreover, such polling might endow a false sense of legitimacy for the UC to take stands on political issues like foreign policy, domestic policy, or janitor wages—a distraction we have repeatedly lambasted the UC in the past...
...roots in Louisiana go back generations. Growing up in New Orleans, listening to people converse and watching them interact are what formed me. During his retirement, my father Lionel, a former construction worker turned short-order cook and janitor, would sit on his front porch on the corner of South Jefferson Davis Parkway and Baudin Street in the midcity section of New Orleans. There he could watch people leave early for work and children play across the street at Comiskey Playground. He greeted everyone who passed by. "Where ya at?" or "What's going on?" he would...