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...first time, all federal employees who join the Government after Jan. 1, 1984, will be covered by Social Security, expanding the system's base and revenues. Employees of nonprofit organizations will also be forced into the system. Employees of state or local governments now covered can no longer withdraw...
...those children was eight-year-old Nikola. Transported to the U.S. to join a father he had never met, the boy discovered the cathartic power of words when he wrote a school essay about his mother's death. He took the name Nicholas Gage and grew up to become an investigative reporter and foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Gradually, the grief of his childhood returned as an obsession. In 1979 Gage quit the newspaper to learn how and why his mother had been killed. He planned a crime of vengeance. He failed at that...
This brings the number of fasters to 17, including Professor of Biology Richard Leowontin who announced on Thursday that he would join the protest...
...think Karl Marx would have been in total agreement with Hugh Calkins' estimation of the Harvard Corporation's lack of ethical concerns--who with any sense in their head would expect anything but profit and power considerations from a corporation? So in this sense the fasters join every other justice-minded, moral human being on this planet who desires change in the face of insurmountable odds. I guess that means they're "ineffectual," "naive," maybe even a little crazy. But somehow it also seems clear to me that doing something--anything--to protest and bring to public attention a situation...
...with it cheap. I guess). every and any action which attempts to give voice to what little is left of ethical conscience in the world at large at fair Harvard in particular deserves our respect. With this, and despite the fact that I choose for personal reasons not to join the fasters. I would like to state my support for their effort, and also my hope for all of us concerned and outraged over the divestiture issue that some change will come about soon. Toba Spitzer...