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...door for the local Service Employees International Union, which is trying to unionize 73,000 minimum-wage workers who care for the elderly and disabled in their homes. "We have this down to a science," claims S.E.I.U. official Steve Wilensky, explaining that students would follow computerized lists of homeworkers laid out on block-by-block grids. But the database crashed, and lists turned out to be outdated, with students searching for buildings that had tumbled down during the 1994 earthquake...
...video lists (John Sayles' film Matewan, about a coal miners' strike), some found themselves reluctant to embrace the gamut of militant tactics. There were nervous titters during training when Quynh Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American organizer, mentioned "Dumpster diving"--searching through company trash for information. And when hotel workers laid out plans for street theater during a wedding reception at the New Otani, many had misgivings. "I don't want to protest at someone's wedding," said Ramos, the Brown University student. "That's their very important day." But after much discussion, she and other dissenters agreed to participate...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Two things were clear after Senators laid into top Pentagon officials Tuesday over last month's bombing in Saudi Arabia. First, the military underestimated the threat of terrorism to U.S. troops in the Middle East. Under stiff inquiries from members of the Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary William Perry admitted that U.S. military commanders were slow to beef up security around service bases after another bombing in Riyadh last November. Second, and more damaging, testimony by Perry and others made clear that U.S. officials had not pushed the Saudi government hard enough to comply with the new security...
This is an unfounded criticism that overlooks the fact that The Crimson loyally reported the facts (surrounding my impending trial and the subsequent exoneration), including my charges of conspiracy and character defamation laid at the door of the Center for Middle East Studies. Perhaps The Crimson should have compromised its principles and sheepishly appeased these gentlemen--at that center of deceit and falsification--by censoring my point of view...
...sites were also built on a fairly modest scale: the Great Pyramid at La Venta, a site that arose around 800 B.C., is just 100 ft. high, about half the size of the tallest Mayan pyramid at Chichen Itza. Still, each Olmec site was laid out according to a preconceived plan, a fact that reflects both the people's religious beliefs and a fairly sophisticated knowledge of engineering. All the mounds at La Venta, for example, are oriented precisely 8û west of north...