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...under-the-weather, constantly sneezing, haggard and crazed-looking Will C. Benstein ’03 is sick of people telling him that he looks like shit. Comments Benstein, “Blech [snort...
...line, generating 14,487 leads. But most callers leave general suggestions or rants. Police have tracked down men who match the killer's profile, but they have turned out to have alibis. One was a man known for belligerence and a fondness for firearms who was found to be sick and under constant care. Several other men remain under surveillance, but police still don't believe they have the shooter...
...solitary traveler wanders aimlessly, love-sick and world-weary, every object and place reminding him of his lost love and impending death. Such is the stuff of Franz Schubert’s Winterreise, surely the most beloved of song-cycles and one of the greatest challenges a singer can take on. The marriage of Wilhelm Müller’s 24 poems and Schubert’s evocative music is one of the defining moments of German Romanticism. It takes a singer with just the right amount of assuredness and vulnerability to pull it off successfully...
...Harvard’s buildings and who won a better contract last winter after a protracted struggle with the Harvard administration. Many of them are employed by the same companies that employ Harvard’s outsourced janitors. Earning only $39 a night, with no health care and no sick days, they face the same abhorrent conditions Harvard workers have faced in the past (and still often face today). These mainly immigrant janitors deserve living wages, health care and full-time work...
...cleaning companies’ cost-cutting strategy exacts a terrible human toll. One female janitor, screaming into a megaphone before a march at the Park St. T stop, described the situation she and her family face. Her son is often sick and needs a lot of medicine to stay healthy. But if she buys his medicine, she can’t buy food. So the question every week is whether the son will be healthy and the family can’t eat, or whether he’ll be sick and there’ll be food...