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Professor of Law David B. Wilkins '77, one of the targets of the first column, responded with a letter in the January 17 issue of the Record, saying that although he does not object to the use of student parody, the punch-line of the column "is not only not funny...it is blatantly degrading and bigoted...
...young jarheads last week jokingly called it a "Marine sewing circle," insisting that the ritual is an integral part of Marine bonding. But even some men who have been pinned warn that the tapes depict a form of hazing far more vicious than the customary single punch. Bernard Trainor, a retired Marine lieutenant general who lectures on national security at Harvard, has fond memories of the day he received his punch 32 years ago in Vietnam. "I never questioned it," he says. "It was part of the rite of passage." The senior jumper in his unit made a little speech...
...operations. Then a class-action suit accused Guess and 16 subcontractors of paying their mostly immigrant workers less than minimum wage. Ornery picket lines spread from Guess's shop on Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive to its 66 other retail outlets across the country. And in a final one-two punch, the National Labor Relations Board forced the firm to rehire employees it had fired for union sympathizing, while the U.S. Labor Department nudged it off the "Trendsetter" list of manufacturers who forswear sweatshop practices...
...Attorney Johnnie Cochran, a friend of Bill Cosby's, says the actor's face lit up every time Ennis entered the room. Though he kept his family out of the public eye, Cosby would let the subject of Ennis drag out a conversation--with his son becoming a loving punch line to jokes. He was always keen to remind people that Ennis was a natural and graceful athlete, interrupting a 1985 Playboy interviewer, for example, to say, "Young Ennis, by the way, is now 6 ft. 3 in. tall." In his 1987 book, Time Flies, Cosby makes a mock complaint...
...that feed and protect schools of commercial fish. Factory trawlers scare up schools by dragging heavy chains over the sea bottom, uprooting aquatic plants and killing coral and shellfish. Migrating fish, such as salmon, are caught before they can spawn, thus killing their progeny as well. This one-two punch has contributed to the endangerment of many species, even those that are not pursued for their food value. The good news? Once the damaging practices end, depleted fisheries have shown a surprising capacity to revive...