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...likelihood of a strike, but said the union will meet on Thursday to consider the University’s latest offer.Janitors and student supporters rallied in the Square and at a Harvard Club speech by University President Lawrence H. Summers yesterday in support of their demands. (See story, page 3)KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESESCurrent negotiations are set against a backdrop of disagreements between the University and the union on where Harvard’s wages stand with respect to its peer institutions, how to count the value of its benefits package, and how Harvard is doing in meeting related...
...households with annual incomes of more than $1 million. "With three consecutive hurricanes and skyrocketing energy prices, the fiscal environment is quite different, and we have to think about what is doable," Snowe told TIME. Her resolve, which rankled Senate G.O.P. leaders and the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, inspired a literal thumbs-up from North Dakota Democrat Kent Conrad as he headed to the Senate floor. "It took real courage for her to stand up and say, 'We've got to change course,'" Conrad said...
...DIED. JOHN FOWLES, 79, reclusive and experimental novelist; in Lyme Regis, England. Escaping a career in teaching, Fowles became a transatlantic cult success in the mid-'60s with The Collector, a dark novella about obsession, and the 600-page, metaphysical labyrinth of The Magus-experiments in fiction that endure despite being made into forgettable films. His surprise best seller of 1969, The French Lieutenant's Woman, may be best remembered for the windswept pairing of Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons in the 1981 screen adaptation by Harold Pinter...
...that’s where my Skip Bayless-styled self-righteous indignation kicks in. What did Murphy expect Johnson to do? Was there any doubt someone would ask for the suspensions to be shortened?It isn’t as if Bryant and Schober had pulled a page from Terrell Owens’ playbook, turned on their teammates, and poisoned the atmosphere in the locker room while attempting to renegotiate their contracts. They had—or at least Schober had—been caught breaking a law that most college students have, at one point or another, probably broken...
...books on view, the illustrated Treatise on Geometry is significant for its author, the Muslim king of Saragossa, Spain, and its date of 1080. Similarly, Arabs absorbed the theoretical concepts of Greek medicine, adding to them the idea of scientifically monitoring patients in a special place - a hospital. One page in a Treatise on Anatomy, written in Persia in 1411, details digestive organs, veins and arteries outlined on a human body. And a 1632 copy of Avicenna's Canon of Medicine delineates the basic skeletal system. The curators have put together an imaginative collection of some 200 artifacts, lent...