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Political success is often accidental (Blair took command after his predecessor died of a heart attack), but it also comes from calculation. Just as Bill Clinton reinvented himself as a New Democrat to capture the White House in 1992, and then as a reborn centrist to win a second term...
If HDS signs the pledge, it will join a list of Harvard students who signed individually last week when petitioners garnered support in front of the science center.
Passed 38 to 7, the resolution urges HDS to sign a pledge "affirming that California strawberry workers should be given access to bathrooms and safe drinking water in the field, health insurance, a work atmosphere free from sexual harassment, a living wage, and reasonable job security."
Jeffrey got out a stub of a pencil and made a correction on the pledge card. "That makes eight," he said.
"We've got you down for seven columns, 41 assorted mentions and six cheap shots," Jeffrey said, withdrawing a small pledge card from his pocket. "Does that sound right?"