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These days, Republicans have the desperate aura of an endangered species. They lost Congress, then the White House; more recently, they lost a slam-dunk House election in a conservative New York district, then Senator Arlen Specter. Polls suggest that only one-fourth of the electorate considers itself Republican, that independents are trending Democratic and that as few as five states have solid Republican pluralities. And the electorate is getting less white, less rural, less Christian - in short, less demographically Republican. GOP officials who completely controlled Washington three years ago are vowing to "regain our status as a national party...
...mail in February that Harvard would consider renewing its contract with Russell if the company followed recommendations of the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a global workers’ rights group of which Harvard is a member. Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09, a SLAM member, said that SLAM is concerned that the investigation leading to the FLA’s recommendations were flawed. In response, SLAM brought Salma Mirza, a member of the national staff of the United Students Against Sweatshops, and Mirna Chavarría Lopez, a 37-year-old former worker in Russell?...
Though bell-bottoms and daisy chains remain relics of the ’60s, student activism at Harvard is anything but history. SLAM, the Student Labor Action Movement, has become increasingly vocal in the past few months. Harvard students are likely to encounter SLAM’s campaign against layoffs on an average stroll through the yard—perhaps in the form of student activists holding signs, waving banners, or sporting screen-printed t-shirts branded with SLAM’s polemical slogan, “Greed is the New Crimson.” As the school year draws...
...FlyBy's useless banter not assuaged you? Are you still mildly irritated at this fascinating intersection of email spam, administration coercion, sex, and grade-infused stress? We're sorry, barring a SLAM-encouraged boycott of the Q, there's not much you can do--unfortunately, emails are free...
...SLAM is chanting slogans outside Mass. Hall. Sometimes I wish my office were in Allston...