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With only a week’s rest since their last public protest, labor activists took up their usual position in front of the Holyoke Center yesterday afternoon for a small, rainy rally in support of a former Harvard employee charged with stealing a drill from the biological animal laboratory in which he worked...
After fiscal year 2003, when we began our protest, the top six managers earned $110 million, including $35 million each for the top two. Harvard recently announced that based on the past fiscal year the top six will earn another $78.4 million, with $25 million each for the same top two. Pay at this level is excessive, unnecessary, inappropriate and contrary to the values of a great university—especially since tuition keeps increasing at a rate triple annual inflation, driving students into debt...
While many rightly protest the staggering death toll from the Darfur conflict, which has reached almost 70,000, most of us are blind to the toll inflicted by our own government several hundred miles to the east in Iraq. Of course, this ignorance is not entirely our fault. Some of the blame rests on the official policy of the U.S. government, which suppresses the Iraqi casualty count. In an honest revelation of priorities, the U.S. government does, through the National Agricultural Statistics Service, keep meticulous data on the herd sizes and deaths of hogs, pigs, cattle, poultry, sheep, and ewes...
Window Of Opportunity When British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw visited Ramallah last week to leave a wreath at Yasser Arafat's grave, many observers expected the government of Ariel Sharon to protest. But Israeli officials were resigned. "We snubbed officials who went to talk to Arafat when he was alive," sighed one. "We can't very well do that to those who want to talk to him when he's dead." That tempered response reflects a new mood of conciliation. With Palestinians preparing to vote on Jan. 9 for a new President, Israel last week signaled that it will allow...
...Officers were dispatched to take a report of a group protesting in Harvard Yard. The officers that responded determined the group had permission to hold a silent protest...