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David Bonior, a Michigan Democrat who was the House minority whip prior to his 2003 retirement, told a crowd of about 40 people in Emerson Hall last night that Harvard security workers are locked in a “struggle for dignity and respect...
...don’t support any political party or anybody with some sort of political agenda or social agenda,” said Bill Poole of the Lexington Minute Men, a commemorative organization. “We are focused entirely on the past and respect for the past and the sacrifices that have been made...
...Newcomer Joseph Cross takes his first leading role as Augusten, a boy growing up in the 1970s with two feuding parents. A young Augusten develops a close relationship with his mother Deirdre (Annette Bening, “American Beauty”). She is a struggling poet who only wants respect from her peers, and her alcoholic husband Norman—played with the perfect mixture of exhaustion and sarcasm by Alec Baldwin. When Norman walks out on the family, Deirdre begins seeing Dr. Finch (Brian Cox, “The Bourne Identity”), an unorthodox therapist who medicates...
...Rights Consortium, Harvard claims to adhere to a basic framework of values in its labor practices. But these are poorly defined and all too nebulous. They include the intangible commitment to “honesty and integrity in all dealings,” and an obligatory “respect for the rights, differences, and dignity of others.” But these promises didn’t protect Saintely Paul, a janitor in William James, from being fired unjustly after fainting on the job. Harvard rehired him with full back pay only after a cooperative effort by workers...
...system to publicize the successes and failures of African leaders - the Ibrahim Index. Under the direction of Harvard Professor Robert Rotberg, it will set out objective measures of how the 48 sub-Saharan African countries are performing in many areas, from corruption to judicial independence to respect for human rights to the delivery of health and education...