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Today, in a world in which democracy and the free market have come to take widespread hold, indignant would-be activists lash out at apathetics, who have always been and always will be apathetic, instead of picking up a bullhorn and a picket. In times of desperate turbulence like the '30s and '60s, the apathetics were never the enemy because there were more pernicious adversaries; the enemy was and always should be those fighting on the other side, and not those simply doing nothing...
Morgan notes that 36 workers have been fired in recent weeks due to "picket line violations" that include "swearing." While the dictates of good taste prohibit me from detailing specifically what was said, suffice it to say that threatening to rape and kill employees and their families in what the Boston Herald termed "shockingly graphic" terms does not constitute "swearing." This type of sexual and racial harassment would not be tolerated at Harvard University, in any newsroom in the country or indeed at any workplace. The National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency charged with the oversight of labor disputes...
...light of the company's use of violence as a means of breaking the strike, it becomes ironic that they have fired 36 workers in recent weeks for what they term "picket line violations." These include such offenses as "swearing." Last week, after a group of strikers went to a board meeting to ask the CEO about the strike, 15 workers were fired within the hour...
Lorraine B. Lasen, who held a picket sign on Monday afternoon saying "Liberty for Louise," said the earlier verdict of second-degree murder was "unfair, possibly because the jury didn't get a grasp on all the medical evidence that was presented to them...
Everyone is talking about Ally McBeal. Produced by David E. Kelley, who created Picket Fences and Chicago Hope, the show portrays a single woman struggling with work and love, and it has become another subject of arch, joshing disputes between the sexes, like football and Michael Bolton. To many women, Ally is quirky, contradictory and wonderful; to many men, she is a simpering drag. Our mission here is to settle this question once and for all. The answer? Simpering drag, but not hopeless...