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But even as thousands of well-wishers from around the world register their support for the strikers through an online petition, NYU is threatening to stop paying the strikers’ stipends for two semesters and to prevent them from working as teaching assistants in the future.
According to the website, 39 Harvard affiliates have signed the petition, including Professor of Law Janet Halley. She wrote in an e-mail yesterday that NYU “should not change such substantial parts of the academic culture to cram down the union.”
BACK AT THE QUINCEAERA in Bridgehampton, the festivities continued, yet the price and the promises of immigration were never far out of mind. Julio Sr. was there, but his wife and sons were 2,000 miles away in Tuxpan. Pancho was still in Mexico, so his wife Ruth waltzed...
American Idol is really two shows. There's the American half, in which America turns up to petition Paula, Randy and Simon, that cruel trinity of fame gods. And there's the Idol half, which doesn't get going until March, in which the show hypes up its 12 finalists...
Most of the people who run Harvard have probably never taken a course in social responsibility, and if they did, odds are they would be the ones passed out in the back. All the same, administrators and their minions have had a whole semester to prove themselves in that department...