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...against the Engineers at home but losing the other two contests.Harvard finally turned things around with a pair of overtime wins against Brown and Princeton.But in order to clinch a first-round bye in the ECAC playoffs, the Crimson needed to play exceptionally well over a nine-day period against the top four teams in the conference.Facing an uphill battle, Harvard delivered. Though the Crimson dropped the first game of the set with a 4-1 loss to Colgate, Harvard upset the Big Red the following day before returning home to sweep Clarkson and the Saints and clinch fourth place...
...discuss future union empowerment and the achievement of a living wage on campus at a meeting organized by the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM). The meeting is one of four SLAM events this week, including a Thursday roundtable on workers’ rights. After a three year campaign and nine-day hunger strike, Georgetown students won a living wage for workers last spring—successfully demanding full-time contract workers be paid a minimum of $13 an hour by fiscal year 2006. Diane Foglizzo, a recent Georgetown graduate and participant in the hunger strike, said she hoped the Georgetown...
...Independence is not the choice of Taiwanese people." JAMES SOONG, leader of Taiwan's opposition People First Party, at the beginning of his nine-day visit to mainland China intended to build a "bridge of trust" between the two governments...
...single most powerful American Cardinal. Still, unlike corporate culture, in the Catholic Church, ceremony itself can carry real weight. And in his new role, Law was picked to lead this evening's official Mass in St. Peter's Basilica in honor of Pope John Paul II, part of the nine-day mourning period called Novemdiales...
More recently, the cause for a living wage was taken up at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where a nine-day long hunger strike succeeded last month in convincing the University to implement a living wage program for its workers...