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...helped by participation by worker representatives; since its recommendation would be non-binding, Harvard would have no reason to fear an undermining of collective bargaining. And students should also be represented to contribute their voice. Though PSLM members should have a share of representation—not as a reward for their unjustified seizure of a University building, but in recognition of their extensive involvement and knowledge—other student representatives should be selected through existing representative bodies such as the Undergraduate Council and the governing boards of the graduate schools. We are concerned at reports that an independent...
Michael Weisskopf: Some critics have suggested that you've labeled the current situation as an energy crisis in part to reward your many campaign supporters in the energy sector...
...concepts is unheard-of in the TV business). But while it is derivative and goofy--the screaming "drill instructors" put the "camp" in Boot Camp--it also shows a kind of olive-drab heart. Its major structural difference from Survivor is the most telling: the "recruits" conduct grueling reward challenges, not in teams, but as one unit. It's the most literal example of a widespread reality-show theme: that ordinary folk (including a professional balloon sculptor), working together and given motivation, can gut it out mentally and physically--that your real opponent is yourself...
...Outback Internet Cafe? Good product placement for the iMac, but horribly treacly viewing, as CBS dragged the contestants' families in for a lifeline-style Outback trivia game to hand out the week's reward - which was neither food nor shelter but a half-hour "private chat" for Tina and her family. (And a $500 shopping spree, courtesy of the good folks at - well, I'm not telling. Take that, capitalist pigs.) Nothing like Internet-homesickness - set of course to a tinkling piano score - to make rugged survivalism cuter than a well-worn teddy bear. This is what...
...teary Reward Challenge put a gauzy sentimentality over the second half-hour, with Keith praying around the fire (which God promptly answered with a fierce thunderstorm, which the producers - just guessing here - promptly mitigated by planting a smoldering log in the woods just out of sight). Colby even declared it "a non-strategy...