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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...don’t just passively sit back and hope from the force of your logical argument to convince management,” Carens says. “Negotiations aren’t achieving what they need to achieve, and now it’s time to hit the streets...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Amid Crisis, Workers Defy Union Image | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...would have asked to sit down with the Dean of the Medical School and have a conversation,” he says. “I think its fair to say there are ways to get things done in a constructive manner that will get less publicity, but will actually get the job done...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss and June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Curbing Conflict | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...issue of having an antiquated and exclusive club that would not accept women was certainly a controversial issue,” said Victor G. Freeman ’88 a former member of the Undergraduate Council. One that he said “was not going to sit well” in light of the merger...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner and Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Socially Stratified | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...general, and what I in particular, could or should do. In hindsight, this turmoil was very liberating. Because I did not have a sense of my professional opportunities, and society was confused about what was appropriate for women, I was free to find my interests, take odd paths, even sit it out for a while...

Author: By Judith H. Kidd | Title: The Restart Option | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...time I reached Harvard, I had learned how to sit relatively still for an hour and to reduce others’ thoughts to halfway comprehensible scribbles.[no paragraph break here] Part of the trick to remaining sane while sitting still for so long is to allow the mind to wander invisibly. At best, it wanders to a place where the lecturer’s ideas are tested and challenged, which means that one has also missed ten minutes of the ongoing lecture. At worst, the mind simply counts the minutes until class is over. There is never a guarantee that...

Author: By J. lorand Matory | Title: What Harvard Has Taught Me | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

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