Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Farm workers in California are protected under a comprehensive state law allowing them to select through secret ballot which union, if any, they want to represent them. Time and again, California farm workers have rejected the UFW as their representative and have selected other unions to represent them...
...affirmative action, the most potent weapon of all may be a harmless-looking sheaf of papers stashed in the book-lined office of Carl Cohen, a philosophy professor at the University of Michigan. The documents, which Cohen obtained by filing a Freedom of Information Act request, contain the top-secret charts and grids the university uses in selecting its incoming class. With their frequent references to the race of applicants, and apparent use of different and lower selection criteria for minority applicants, Cohen's materials are the kind of evidence that make a conservative litigator's pulse race...
Morris suggests that the secret to his success is simple: pick people who pick catchy songs. He should know, having written the 1966 hit Sweet Talkin' Guy. "He's the only person heading a music distributor who's had success at two major companies," says author Fred Goodman, whose Mansion on the Hill traces the ascent of music moguls. Perhaps the most tantalizing part of his latest job is competing with his old employer. "I don't feel any need for vindication," says Morris about Warner. "That's not to say I don't want our company...
...generic and trite. However, Atkinson's antics, though truncated, make it barely watchable. When he is by himself and allowed to perform up to his usual levels, the audience can almost forgive the staleness of his vehicle. Scenes including those wherein he monkeys in front of mirrors, goes on secret undercover missions of silliness and gets himself arrested in an airport simply for being Beanish are the film's only redeeming moments. Unfortunately, the contrived sappiness of the plot takes what should have been divinely inspired idiocy and makes it merely dumb...
...were especially pleased to have our veritas-embossed press pass last week for the official Jiang visit. Otherwise, we might have been jailed for walking through good old Harvard Yard, which was occupied by more officials of the Cambridge police and federal Secret Service than turned out to bust the Adams House masquerade...