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Both Reeves and Simmons—along with the seven other incumbents of the City Council, including Mayor Michael A. Sullivan—are running for reelection next Tuesday, Nov. 8. If all are returned to office, membership on the Council will not have changed since...
...their governments’ position. Indeed, influential leaders in each of these countries, including French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, are fervently against Turkey’s inclusion in the EU. Further east, an October poll showed that Greeks have become more skeptical about Turkish membership in the last year—almost 60 percent of Greek voters now oppose that possibility. To make things worse, Austria almost imploded negotiations before they began by stating that “full membership should not be the ultimate objective of the talks,” essentially eliminating...
...There are 46 different proposals that we’re looking at in these negotiations,” Longbrake said last night. “We are not going to negotiate in the press but...our past negotiating sessions were overwhelmingly approved by the membership and we’re looking forward to continuing to bargain in good faith...
...ventures run the gamut from medical clinics staffed by retired doctors and nurses to legal clinics for disadvantaged children. New activities like these are attracting more men to volunteerism, which has historically been dominated by women. At Taproot, men make up 38% of the membership. The gender revolution--in which more women have gone to work--has reduced the traditional pool of female volunteers even as expertise-based assignments are drawing in more men. "Because we are now in a knowledge economy," Steinhorn says, "knowledge is what both women and men can contribute...
...when Harvard hired him as an employee of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD). His involvement in the labor movement began in 1990, when he was elected as Harvard’s shop steward for Local 254 of the International Service Employees Union. McCombe later withdrew his membership after a only a few years, arguing that the group’s leadership did not adequately represent its members. He took the Harvard chapter with him and went on to found the independent HUSPMGU in 1996, when he received official certification from the National Labor Relations Board...