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...museum, located at 6 Divinity Ave., launches what supporters hope will be a new era of greater attention to Semitic studies at Harvard with a special exhibit documenting the plight of the Jewish community in Danzig which was forced to emigrate on the eve of World...
...What has happened to Joe is symbolic of the plight of Black South African journalists," current Nieman Fellow Ameen Akhalwaya said yesterday. "More than any other journalist, he has shown the courage that the award stands for." Akhalways is a political reporter for the South African Rand Daily Mail...
...think that there is little concern for Black South African journalists here in the United States and I hope the award may bring attention to the plight of people like Joe," said Akhalwaya...
...transient character of Harvard Square labor has allowed the Coop to pay its workers often shockingly low wages, scarcely above the minimum wage for some full-time stockboys and clerks. The plight of older Coop workers is often worse. Forced to cope with high inflation, they can find little comfort in the Coop's low wages. Employees have cited other labor problems: oppressive monitoring, inconsiderate assignment of tasks, and biased promotion procedures...
That was hardly the issue. Impeaching a President was not the same as a parliamentary vote of noconfidence. What Nixon sought in his oblique way was a vote of confidence, an expression of sympathy for his plight, a show of willingness to continue the fight. All he encountered was an embarrassed silence...