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...weeks before the opening. "Now that's a sign!" he told his employees. All others were soon replaced by signs twice their size. The guy who once had Frank Sinatra pinch his cheeks for a commercial and who earlier this year had helicopters shoot videotape of him while he stood on a 5-ft.-wide catwalk on the roof of his 50-story hotel for a new TV ad is just getting going when it comes to promotion. His giant signature is not only on the top of the building and the clock radios in every room but also underneath...
...group then walked to Mass. Hall where a police officer dressed in riot gear stood at the front of the building. Protest organizers also spoke about Karen O’Brien, a Harvard employee and a Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) representative, alleging that Harvard was engaging in union-busting through threatening and intimidating actions towards O’Brien...
...offended because a group of idealistic students chose to mess with a government effort that they deemed profoundly amoral is ridiculous. Instead, we should marvel at how much power these students leveraged—whether or not we agree with their politics. (For the record, I agree.) They actually stood up and stopped a mechanism of the powerful system they hated, just by being funny. As one friend who was there told me, it was like a politically-motivated version of the day your high school class successfully thwarted the substitute teacher...
Baking in the hot sun, Helen M. Rayshick, along with about 50 others, stood opposite Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square on April 16—less than a mile from the towering William James Hall—to protest animal experimentation in Harvard labs...
...last night’s meeting, Patrick said that he still stood by a Coca-Cola investigation that he said “persuaded us that those allegations of a conspiracy were false...