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...from Mexico, was fired from his sanitation contractor job for Smithfield, in nearby Tar Heel, N.C., in 2003 after protesting working conditions. Now, an organizer for the United Food Commercial Workers Union, he is part of a growing nationwide effort to organize what was once considered a no-win labor population: Latino immigrant workers...
Deep Springs is an two-year all-male liberal arts college guided by the precepts of “academics, labor, and self-governance,” according to the school’s Web site. Given its rigorous application process of seven essays plus a four-day visit and interview, each entering class consists of only 12 men. There are four to six professors in residence who teach classes of approximately four students each. Pupils hire and fire their own faculty and work 20 hours a week at jobs ranging from working cattle to cooking food for the group...
...ever doubted Kevin Rudd's grand ambitions. Likewise, nobody ever thought to stop him on the way to the top. The Australian Labor Party's new leader is among the hardest working members of federal Parliament. And he's never met a TV camera or radio microphone he couldn't love. Clever? Let Rudd set you straight, on any topic from Asia to Zion. That he was not a creature of Labor's factions or a pol-bot molded by the unions, did not in the end harm the 49-year-old Queenslander in a below-the-radar quest...
...clear what Rudd can do differently, other than offering a new face to voters. So far, he's stayed close to Labor's anodyne talking points about fairness in the workplace, better health and education services and a cleaner environment. A foreign affairs and trade specialist, Rudd is well traveled and speaks Mandarin. Elected to Parliament in 1998, Rudd came to prominence this past year through his pursuit of the Howard government over wheat exporter AWB's abuse of the Iraqi oil-for-food program. Rudd is a Christian who is comfortable speaking about his faith. His early life...
...moderate, smooth and dapper Rudd have the common touch? An election is due by late 2007. The Howard government has been under pressure for its part in President George W. Bush's coalition in Iraq and also because of several rises in interest rates. Rudd is the fourth Labor leader Howard has faced in three years. The P.M. always appeared comfortable rumbling with Beazley, less so against the maverick Mark Latham, who assumed the Labor leadership in 2003 at a similar point in the electoral cycle. With a new deputy leader, Julia Gillard, 45, Labor's first couple...