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...ruling issued Thursday, London's High Court declared that a 12-day strike planned for later this month by British Airways cabin crew was illegal. The proposed walkout - over cuts to staff numbers and a freeze on pay imposed by the airline last month - can now no longer go ahead. The court's decision marked a "disgraceful day for democracy," the trade union behind the strike, Unite, said in response. But the 1 million passengers that could have been affected were undoubtedly relieved by the decision. And BA, for its part, said it was "delighted." (See pictures of Heathrow Airport...
Some come to the Pit for the counterculture scene, while others stop in Cambridge during a longer journey, said Berman...
...second argument that “if a choice is made based on economic necessity, it is not a real, truly free choice.” Certainly, the choice to have an abortion is often made based on economic necessity. But once the option of abortion is no longer open to a woman, there is no other choice. The natural course of this situation runs inevitably toward childbirth and child-rearing (adoption, if it is an alternative, only becomes one much later; Child-rearing carried out by an adopted mother still occurs after the biological mother has undergone a long...
...Harvard, according to the article, Bernanke was an "academic star," graduating summa cum laude after discovering "that he could no longer get straight A's without studying." (maybe we should try that...
...Task Force, formed last spring as the University sought to respond to an unprecedented 30 percent drop in its endowment, wrote in their report that the University could no longer hope for a completely comprehensive collection and recommended that the sprawling library system streamline its administrative structure...