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...tribute to civil rights leaders Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., several of their friends and colleagues reflected on the 45th anniversary of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott at the Kennedy School of Government yesterday...
...Rosa told me that her courage at that moment came from a voice in her head saying, 'You're a child of God, you can make a difference.' It drowned out the voices of everyone trying to get her to move," said Height...
When Nader hears this kind of thing, he starts rattling off such names as Rosa Parks and Thomas Jefferson. What's happened to dissent in this country? he wonders. The issue, he says, is that neither Bush nor Gore will run Washington. "The decisions in this town are made by the Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, 22,000 corporate lobbyists and 9,000 PACs who have their grip on every department in government. Who do you think is the most powerful force on the auto-safety agency? It's the auto companies. Food and drug, aviation...
Mount Sinai is one of 30 corporations, including Target in Minneapolis, Minn., and Agilent Technologies in Santa Rosa, Calif., to have a work-site school on its premises. The medical center provides three portables and maintenance of the space, while Dade County provides the teachers, books and curriculum. In the end, overcrowding is alleviated for the school district, while the company gains lower absenteeism and turnover rates among employees who utilize the school. American Bankers Insurance Group in Miami found that among employee-parents, its school reduced absenteeism 25% and lowered its turnover rate from 16% to 4.5%. Dade County...
...This has now become an especially topical issue because the Latin American songwriter of "Livin' La Vida Loca," Robi Rosa, is going loco at the Republicans for using his recent hit song "The Cup Of Life" (a sort-of "Livin' La Vida Java") as a centerpiece of their convention. The upbeat tune was blasted out at the conclusion of George W. Bush's acceptance speech. Rosa pointed out that he had not given permission for the usage and labeled the connection "perverse." He specifically lambasted the GOP for "trying to forge a connection to the Latin community with...