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It’s good to be back. It’s lovely to have the time and opportunity to study again and to be with good friends. Yet I struggle to retain the soul of my missionary self. During that year and a half, I simply tried to be more like the person God expected me to be: kinder, braver and more generous. It was much easier to daub myself into an active, accomplished “Portrait of the Artist as a Success” than it was to quarry in my soul with a pickaxe, searching...

Author: By Melissa W. Inouye, MELISSA W. INOUYE | Title: The Pursuit of One Good Thing | 10/22/2002 | See Source »

...reasonable demands. Harvard should recognize that health care is a human right that must be provided by employers. If UNICCO refuses, then Harvard has an obligation to cut its contract with UNICCO. As was negotiated in the Harvard janitors’ contract last winter, all janitors would retain their jobs were this to happen. The practice of subcontracting is generally harmful to workers, and it has always been a demand of the Living Wage Campaign that Harvard discontinue this practice. Rather than hiring another contractor, Harvard should again directly employ all the janitors currently employed by UNICCO in order...

Author: By Daniel Dimaggio, | Title: Support the Striking Janitors | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

...their ejection, party leaders threw sand in the gears of parliament last week by declaring the entire state budget open for debate. That dissonant note may end up as the party's swan song, though. A recent poll found that if elections were held now, the LPF would retain only four of the 26 places it won in the 150-seat lower house of parliament. But the party's exit from government leaves undelivered the promise for real change that Pim Fortuyn offered in the first place. "We elected the LPF to do a job that the other politicians wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Party's Over | 10/20/2002 | See Source »

Kirby’s proposed system of preregistration would retain shopping period yet require students to fill out their study cards the semester before. The initiative was criticized by some CUE members who were not convinced that it would solve the problems of poor advising and unpredictable course numbers it is intended to address...

Author: By Divya A. Mani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Preregistration Plan Slated For Next Fall | 10/17/2002 | See Source »

...tourists pay in Bali or Jakarta, including silk shawls so delicate they are virtually transparent. Both stores welcome visitors to adjoining workshops to watch batiks slowly take form. Patterns are drawn or stamped on cloth using melted wax. Dyes are applied, the waxed areas resist the new color and retain their original hue. The process is repeated dozens of times, creating complex, colorful designs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spot | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

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