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...Harvard proposed a salary hike of about 5 per cent to the union, to correspond with the recent rise in the cost of living. Laurence F. Letteri, president of the Patrolmen's Association, says the union will press for a bigger salary hike, and will also seek to obtain an increase in fringe benefits. The major fringes in question are "night and weekend differentials"--the extra pay that officers earn for working less desirable shifts. These differentials are currently far below the similar benefits that members of the Boston and Cambridge forces enjoy. The union contends that the poor fringes...
...poll. Now instead of an immense private advantage they have only a sight strategic edge and the public recognition of how "talented," "determined," and "ingenious" they are. Never mind that this marvelous talent demonstrated itself through the wonderful practice of defrauding their classmates and misrepresenting themselves in order to obtain personal information that certainly would not have been volunteered to them...
Epps said the method companies use to obtain students' names, which he refused to describe, is "usually unethical...
Many of the rights that people have literally died to obtain, such as equal access to education and job opportunities, and the teaching of our history and culture, are currently being withdrawn in the increasing furor around the so-called issue of "reverse discrimination...
...Senate last week unanimously adopted a resolution condemning "the recent beatings, imprisonment, and harassment of Soviet Jews and other minorities trying to obtain emigration visas." Tass responded that the gesture was "pure balderdash" and claimed that "98.4%" of those who have sought to leave Russia in the past five years have been allowed to go. Substantiating the Senate's concern, however, two Jewish "refuseniks" (would-be emigrants not allowed to leave the country) who attempted to contact U.S. embassy officials in Moscow were manhandled and hustled away by security agents...