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...urban sinkhole, block after block of burned-out tenements, garbage-strewn streets and weed-choked lots, populated by gangs, junkies, pimps, hookers, maniacs, cop killers and third-generation welfare families. That is not quite the Hunts Point I was raised in, although it was hardly elm trees and picket fences. We kept our doors and windows locked. I remember a steel rod running from the back of our front door to a brace on the floor so that no one could push in the door. Burglaries were common. Drug use was on the rise. Yet crime and violence in those...
Three local police unions formed a picket line on Mass. Ave. in front of pound Hall yesterday to protest comments made earlier this year by Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, who has said police officers are taught to lie on the witness stand...
...principle intended to ensure that the members of the Harvard community are allowed to compete in the contest of ideas, as stated on page 16: "The University must affirm, assure and protect the rights of its members to organize and join in political associations...publicly demonstrate and picket in an orderly fashion, advocate and publicize by print, sign and voice...
Thereal players may be back, but now the umps have been locked out. Pro baseball umpires are walking picket lines at stadiums where exhibition games are being played to protest. The umpires today balked at a contract proposal from the owners, but neither side would discuss the details. The umps have demanded a 53 percent raise over four years and other financial improvements. When their contracts expired at the end of 1994, the owners proposed cost-of-living raises that would increase salaries by just 2.7 percent this year. Umps expect the owners to start the regular season on April...
Crossing a picket line can indeed be morally repugnant. But this baseball strike wasn't exactly Matewan, not when the players, who average more than $1 million a year, weren't even willing to man their own picket lines. Ostensibly, the players were worried about security, but more probably, they were worried about having to sign a lot of autographs. Disdain for the public is one thing the owners and players have in common...