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...Secretary of Defense to revoke Department of Defense research contracts and grants to schools that bar military recruiters from campus. Initially, the law had little effect, since colleges, law schools, and business schools received precious little in the way of military research grants and could sacrifice funding to protect their gay and lesbian students. Over the years, subsequent amendments and interpretations have expanded the scope of the Solomon Amendment, and now all federal funding can be revoked from an entire university if recruiters are banned from one of its individual schools. During the summer of 2005, Harvard was informed that...
...leave?as they eventually must?the only alternative to a tribal war in Iraq would be the installation of a strongman, a surrogate for Saddam Hussein on a short leash. With an autocratic leader in place, in six months there would be social order in Iraq good enough to protect U.S. oil interests, which is what the war is all about. Chris Keating Quebec City, Canada...
...gave ACORN the credibility to launch a more ambitious effort. In 2003, a coalition of labor and community groups succeeded in raising the pay of 900,000 Illinois workers by bumping the state minimum wage to $6.50. And ACORN wasn’t done. In an innovative effort to protect local workers and local businesses, ACORN is now working on a campaign to require that big box retailers like WalMart pay their workers at least $10 per hour plus benefits. Through a series of successful campaigns, living wage activists in Illinois have changed the political culture in that state...
...think the real story lies with the fact that HSA is practically a monopoly on campus and will do anything to protect that position. Why do you think they would be coming after DormAid so strongly? Do you really think grocery delivery is a patentable idea? (I think Peapod would beg to differ.) It is simply because we may be the first form of competition HSA has seen in ages as we expand our services into DormStep, a delivery service for laundry and groceries. I won’t elaborate on the nastiness of HSA and its lawyers, although...
Last Tuesday, Bush revealed his latest plot to protect America by calling on Congress to “change the law” to allow him to utilize the U.S. military to carry out domestic operations during peacetime, such as “forced quarantines...