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Fire Came to the Earth People (St. Martin's Press; $9.95) speaks of another kind of legend. The moon goddess Mawu, say the West Africans, wanted to keep fire for herself. The lion, panther, elephant and antelope vainly tried to persuade her to part with the secret. Then the chameleon had an idea. Straw was gathered and given to the tortoise. He sneaked it up to the sacred flame. The glowing embers were gathered under his shell and valorously brought home, safe forever from the jealousy of Mawu. The secret of Susan L. Roth's retelling lies in the strong...
Rarely do trade unions go on strike to help overseas brethren. But among some Belgian supermarket employees, solidarity now includes U.S. workers as well. For the past month, members of a Belgian retail-employees union have struck stores owned by the Delhaize-Le Lion retailing giant...
...work stoppages are intended to persuade Delhaize to give a better deal to its nearly 30,000 workers in its 522 Food Lion stores in the U.S. Most of those employees receive no benefits and are paid 40% less than the wages earned at rival stores, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which hopes to organize the Food Lion workers. The Belgian workers plan to keep up their campaign for a year...
...Crimson's second match of the tournament, Columbia jumped to a 7-0 lead. Harvard got a side-out on kill by Burger to stop the Lion run. The Crimson took advantage of the sideout by scoring eight straight points to take the lead...
...tough assignment," Yale Coach Tim Taylor said. "We are a young team, had a tough season last year and now we're walking into the lion...