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...Many of the people in my union are being laid off now,” said Carens, who held a sign reading “Justice for Janitors” during the protest. “Harvard should be the gold standard of how workers are treated and it’s just the reverse...
After about a week of coding, Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com last Wednesday afternoon. The website combines elements of a standard House face book with extensive profile features that allow students to search for others in their courses, social organizations and Houses...
While Breen's overhaul is improving margins, Tyco is still "a little behind the curve," says Joel Levington, an analyst at Standard & Poor's. He notes that Tyco's recent gains in efficiency had been accomplished by most other industrial manufacturers several years earlier. Once Tyco catches up, it will have to find ways to drive organic growth--increasing revenue by adding customers and developing new products, rather than just finding one-off savings by streamlining business models. Healthcare has already started to do that, but Tyco's other business units have further to climb. Still, a sustained rebound...
...name of fighting terrorism, but many European countries are marching smartly in that direction. "It's just a matter of degree," says Michel Tubiana, president of France's Human Rights League. While visiting India last week, Blunkett proposed a tough antiterror package for Britain, including lowering the standard of evidence needed to convict accused terrorists from "beyond reasonable doubt" to "the balance of probabilities"; keeping evidence secret from defendants; requiring defense counsel, and even judges, to be picked from a panel with security clearances; and eliminating juries. Civil-liberties advocates are horrified. "It's very disturbing," says Barry Hugill, spokesman...
...equality, can and should provide the foundation for their own emotional support network so that their confidence and identity does not rely solely on romantic relationships. Millions of women relate to the show because the characters never do what Larson has done—judge women against some arbitrary standard for the “sanctity...