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When a teenager named Izzy gives up boxing to join a jump rope team in Jump In!, a Disney Channel original movie debuting January 12, his classmates taunt him for taking up a playground pastime made popular by little girls. Marcus Taylor, who taught lead actor Corbin Bleu his rope-skipping skills for the film, says the same thing used to happen to him while he was growing up. "I got teased all the time when I was younger," says Taylor, 20, who went on to become a world champion rope jumper in 2004. Now when people poke...
...when Harvard finalized the outsourcing of their jobs to AlliedBarton, a contractor of security services. AlliedBarton had previously prohibited its Harvard employees from unionizing, but in the face of protests and pressure from workers and labor advocates, the firm reversed its stance in November, granting the guards permission to join the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). The deal was cemented last month when a majority of the guards voted in favor of unionization. We applaud this turn of events and believe unionization will provide Harvard’s security guards with long overdue benefits and protections...
...continue to hope that other schools will join us because we believe that this change will sharpen the focus of the admissions process on its most important goal—helping students find the right college match,” Fitzsimmons said...
...mail to all undergraduate economics concentrators, Debbie Whitney, who was responsible for organizing programs such as tutorials and advising students on department policies, wrote Wednesday that she is leaving the post to join Harvard’s Health Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), effective yesterday...
...government, winning the war is only the first step toward reviving a failed state. Aidid, Gedi and President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed all recognize that they cannot succeed without reaching out to all sectors of the population. "We will reconcile with the Islamists," says Aidid. "All their remnants can join our forces." But given the chaos the warlords wrought over the past 15 years and the fragile order now reigning in Mogadishu, distrust of the T.F.G. on the streets is running high. "For the last six months," says development consultant Muktar Hassan Elmi, "we could say, 'I will live tomorrow...