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...protest, nor am I involved at all in the union. However I am a former employee who witnessed the type of worker mistreatment that the Faculty Club was protesting against. Perhaps it will make Kaufman happy to know that he can support these justified workers without risking his precious board fee. Perhaps if he weren't so selfishly concerned with his own welfare, he could have explored what it was that he was condemning before condemning it. --Jake Brooks '97 The author is an inactive editor of The Crimson...
...want to blame Big Oil. It has given us precious little to work with in the past couple of years, save the occasional assault on the environment. Indeed, the price of oil and gas just kept falling, as did industry profits. But Big Oil, the profitmongering version we love to lambaste, is back in form, courtesy of gasoline prices rising geyser-like to more than $2 per gal. in some places. "Gasoline prices are outrageous; my bill has gone up about $20 a month," complains Debra Davis, a San Francisco school-district employee, as she stares in dismay at prices...
...show, however, MST3K may be kaput. Citing a ratings dip, the Comedy Central network first cut the number of episodes from 24 a year to a paltry but precious six, then banished the show to hours appropriate only for Psychic Friends Network infomercials (2 a.m. weeknights, 7 a.m. Sunday and the big prime-time slot, 5 p.m. Saturday). Late last year Doug Herzog, the new president of Comedy Central, said the network was not picking up the show. Negotiations to devise a new format were unfruitful; two weeks ago, Herzog gave Best Brains, MST3K's production company, permission...
...ends on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, which "causes all sorts of problems," according to Herschbach. Additionally, an average of 20 students a semester submit requests to reschedule their Saturday exams due to religious conflicts. An added benefit of shorter exam periods would be one more day of precious intersession...
Finally, I resolved to contact my house User Assistant. She was upbeat for awhile, but it soon became clear that the soul of my precious hard drive seemed to be gone. I took a deep breath and re-installed the system disks, effectively creating a blank slate. The next day, a friend was able to retrieve a few of the important files using "Disk Doctor" and a little magic. That took an hour, and sapped my will to keep trying...