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...member HUCTW will become the largest union in private higher education. In addition, it is the latest successful organizing drive to capitalize on the unique concerns of a "pink-collar" workforce, like Harvard's quasi-professional, mostly female support staff...
...Haiti's cruelest slums, scores of quasi-government thugs known as Tonton Macoutes, wearing telltale red armbands, stormed into a crowded Sunday Mass, attacking indiscriminately with knives, shooting wildly and torching the church. The toll of the rampage: 13 worshipers slain, more than 70 wounded and a gutted church building. But the apparent object of the attack, Father Jean- Bertrand Aristide, somehow managed to escape, as he had in five previous attempts on his life...
...election. In 1940, with Western Europe plunged into war and the rest of the globe poised to follow, the American people were faced with a choice between a pair of interventionists, F.D.R. and Wendell Willkie. But both men, dissembling their true convictions, came down the campaign homestretch as quasi-isolationists. Their waffling reflected a national division, not closed until Pearl Harbor...
...Aaron. Possible conclusion: Elvis Aron Presley is not buried there. The book comes with a tape of a man who sounds like Elvis and offers Delphic hints of his postmortem life and times. If Brewer-Giorgio fails to convince skeptics, she has profitably tapped a rich vein of quasi-religious longing. Millions may sneer along with Doonesbury and David Letterman at news of Presley's sanctified status, but many believe it. A star may have died, but something is being born. Maybe the Church of Elvis...
...quasi-pro athletic programs in many major schools, it is important that the Ivy League uphold the reputation of student-athletes who are both students and athletes. Critics of the change in Columbia's program were afraid that the Ivy League would start to move in the direction of the Southwest Conference and the Big Ten, which field teams first, and colleges second...