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...came a day after the plant's owner, manager and three human resources managers entered not-guilty pleas on over 9,000 misdemeanor charges of illegally using child labor at the plant. A Federal grand jury also indicted two of the human resources managers, charging them with helping workers obtain false documents...
...forget to address the first achievement gap that continues to have great bearing on the post-secondary opportunities of low-income and minority students in this country, one that’s been around since well before Mills. After all, it is difficult to be intellectually curious and obtain any job—let alone a good one—if the education system fails to address your basic educational needs.—Staff writer Laura A. Moore can be reached at lamoore@fas.harvard.edu...
...permission to create—and then dismantle—large structures on private property. “Running Fence,” one of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s earlier projects, featured an 18-foot-high curtained fence running 24 miles through northern California. To obtain permission for the project, the artists negotiated contracts with 59 cattle ranchers. “I remember I made a few boo-boos the first few days,” Jeanne-Claude said in a clip from a documentary that was shown at the event. “I would knock...
...least 30 supporters of President Morales, and possibly a lot more, have been killed over the past week as an opposition campaign to obtain autonomy for the resource-rich eastern regions they control turned violent. The opposition Prefects are demanding greater control over policies ranging from land reform to the allocation of the earnings of Bolivia's natural gas exports, which originate in their regions. Earlier this year, the departments of Tarija, Santa Cruz, Pando and Beni voted overwhelmingly in favor of opposition-drafted autonomy statutes, but since those referenda were not sanctioned by the national electoral court, the central...
...important for people not just to get handouts of food but to work. We showed you could do it," says Arthur Keys, 63, a minister in the United Church of Christ and former labor-union organizer who eventually started his own business advising nonprofits on how to obtain grants. He founded...