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...Back in '95, Ripken's achievement was lionized by sportswriters as one that brought fans back to the game and cleared some of the rancorous smog lingering after the season-ending strike the year before. The participants in the MLB poll surely meant their vote for Ripken as a kind of lunchpail prize: for 13-plus years the guy clocked in, played every day despite sprained ankles and an aching back, acted like a working man, gave himself up for the team. Wednesday night, Billy Crystal, host for the pre-game celebration, said of Ripken, "He is everything that baseball...
...Well, the strike of 2002 was averted and the evening came off - but with one exuberant embarrassment. No. 6 was Pete Rose's all-time hit record. Suddenly, in person, there was Charlie High-Roller, banned forever from baseball, excluded from Hall of Fame consideration, but out there smiling and getting the biggest, longest cheers of the night...
...struggle to escape their rhetorical straightjacket, they betray their intent to frighten the public into a war with Iraq that they realize may not be necessary. Although the North Korean threat differs from Iraq in the details, it is certainly of comparable magnitude. Bush cannot pretend that a preemptive strike is necessary in one case of while admitting the possibility of patient and deliberate diplomacy in the other...
...there is growing pressure on UNICCO to agree to the janitors’ demands. Two weeks ago, Acting Governor Jane Swift announced that UNICCO will lose its contract to clean the State House if it does not meet the janitors’ demands. Earlier in the strike, the California Public Employees’ pension fund decided to terminate UNICCO’s contract in a Boston building which it is part-owner, and it is considering doing the same in two Washington buildings where it is majority owner...
...Harvard gave students academic credit for going to Lawrence, Mass. and helping to break a strike of immigrant textile workers. Those workers were fighting to establish a humane standard of living. Ninety years later, after many struggles including the Mass. Hall student sit-in during spring 2001, it’s time for Harvard to atone for its past mistakes and demonstrate that it is now truly committed to helping provide at least a minimum standard of dignity for working people. In this spirit, Harvard should pressure UNICCO to meet the striking janitors’ demands, or else sever...