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About 50 Harvard workers and students demanded more full-time work for campus custodians in a protest outside an alumni cocktail reception in Lamont Library Friday...
...Many of the people in my union are being laid off now,” said Carens, who held a sign reading “Justice for Janitors” during the protest. “Harvard should be the gold standard of how workers are treated and it’s just the reverse...
...elections to choose a new parliament, charging that a panel dominated by hard-line mullahs had effectively rigged the outcome by disqualifying some 2,000 potential candidates - most of them reformists. The move capped a month-long drama that climaxed with the resignation of 130 reformist parliament members in protest. After attempting to mediate a compromise, Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei came down firmly on the side of the conservatives. Calling reformists "ignorant people" who parroted "the enemies of this nation," he sternly refused to reverse the disqualifications or delay the balloting "even by one day." Iran's conservatives...
...heard [Erdogan] was talking about democracy. We thought maybe we want to show what democracy he is talking about. There is genocide in Turkey,” said Sardar D. Jajan, a Syrian-born Kurdish resident of Watertown who organized the protest. The protestors said the Turkish government displaces Kurds and represses their political efforts...
...towel on its proposed state-of-the-art primate research facility - despite having only recently won a long battle for permission to build it. Rising cost projections, from $43 million in 1998 to $58 million - partly due to the need to make the facility secure from militant animal-rights protesters - led the university to declare that it could not afford to "build Fort Knox." Electoral Impasse IRAN President Mohammed Khatami said that efforts to resolve the crisis over parliamentary elections had reached a dead end after the hard-line Guardian Council refused to rescind bans on thousands of mainly reformist...