Word: labors
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...listing is back up, and the Pynchon-penned teaser is downright tantalizing: "Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead...
...wrote software for many years, but quit early in this decade, for reasons including damage to my economic niche by labor market flooding that had gone on for years and promises to continue. H-1B visas played a part. I doubt there is a labor shortage now. Where did you get the idea that there was? How would you define one? Is it when companies cannot easily find the people they want to work at wages and under conditions they offer? If there were a real shortage, reflected concretely, for example, in big increases in wages, surely many U.S. citizens...
...freshman coach.There’s also the daunting winter triathlon—a 7500-meter row on the erg, a 4.2 mile run, and a complete run through Harvard stadium—that is on schedule months before the walk-ons will ever see the fruits of their labor in spring competition.But for some, the conditioning and the constant improvement are incentive enough.“By November, December, I had started feeling really good about crew,” Carpenter says. “We’d been working out for a while...
...face of Harvard’s student activist movement might just be that of Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07, Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) founder, former Crimson columnist, Kirkland House resident, and general provocateur. Easy to spot, he frequently sports a Che-style cap that seems a deliberate part of his urban-grunge, revolutionary aesthetic...
...Thomas’s daughter was a freshman in June 2001 when Massachusetts Hall was taken over by the Progressive Student Labor Movement—better known as PSLM. "It seemed like the old days for a moment," Thomas says, "but it quickly became clear that the students who took over weren’t that angry." He was amazed to discover that some student activists would call their parents—many of whom were once college activists themselves—for advice. Rather than rebel against their parents, as students did in the 1960s and 1970s, they were...