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Nearly 1,200 students signed comment cards last week to support Harvard University Dining Services workers’ efforts to improve their working benefits. Sponsored by the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), the gathered support will be used next month to help union leaders negotiate a more favorable contract for dining hall employees. Their current contract expires in June. Dining hall workers are currently not guaranteed work over summer recess, nor are they allowed to collect unemployment benefits for those three months, said Adams House cook Bill Nicolson. They are also not paid during Christmas vacation, intercession, and spring break...
...some people will never be convinced and conveniently ignores the growing noncreationist voices of variance. The fishapod could be a link?or it could be a strange animal like a platypus. Without a worldwide fossil record of continuous transformation and demonstrable mechanisms of transition, it is far from a slam dunk for Darwin's theory in action. Michael Camp Poulsbo, Washington...
...ineffective,” thereby furthering the “left’s agenda.” “Clearly, the left is at it again—taking or manufacturing any possible ‘evidence’ in order to slam abstinence programs,” Crouse wrote. But Rosenbaum said the study should lead to new approaches in assessing the effectiveness of virginity pledges, and not to judgments on the effectiveness of these pledges. “Evaluations of virginity pledges need to use objective measures,” said Rosenbaum...
...found, and presto!--Darwinism is undeniable. Paleontologist Michael Novacek says some people will never be convinced and conveniently ignores the growing noncreationist voices of variance. The fishapod could be a link--or a strange animal. Without a worldwide fossil record of continuous transformation, it is far from a slam dunk for Darwin's theory in action...
Your numbers item noted the big gap in winnings paid to men and women champions at "Wimbledon, the only Grand Slam event that still pays men more" [April 17]. And why not? The women's matches are the best of only three sets, not five. Less work means less pay. I'm a firm believer in women's rights--equal pay for equal work...