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...Grape] Coalition does not even take on one of the UFW's main assertions: that workers are not free to unionize or to express grievances. The Coalition points to the small size of the union as proof that workers feel satisfied by conditions, but growers have routinely intimidated their workers with the threat of being fired to prevent them from participating. It is not good enough for individual Harvard students to choose each morning if grapes should be shunned; as student body we need to stand up and be heard, for the rights of those workers toiling away in California...
...ESPN commentators gushed at halftime of theStanford game about her "guns and game," andFeaster was the main topic of conversation atevery press conference before and after both theHarvard-Stanford game and the subsequent Harvardloss to Arkansas...
...Miller's main intellectual pursuit was the study of 20th-century American culture, art and literature. Among numerous teaching positions, she was an art history professor at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and a historian at the National Portrait Gallery...
...Senior Week events are very reasonably priced," he says. "The main complaint is paying for dinner every night...
...case of life imitating Arthur C. Clarke: A skittish computer malfunctions aboard a manned space station, putting a bid to retrieve a U.S. astronaut in jeopardy. Mir's main computer may not be a HAL 9000, but it has spent the last three days succesfully resisting all puny human attempts to restart it. The malfunctioning mainframe may prevent space shuttle Discovery from picking up the Australian-born Andrew Thomas this Friday, since NASA flight regs prohibit docking without an operational steering system on the other end. Now shuttle managers are meeting to decide whether to abandon Tuesday's launch altogether...