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...mind the royal family and especially Queen Elizabeth II, one of the great figures of the 20th century. George Agathokleous Athens Legacy of a Legend At a school function, i learned of the death of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks from an eighth-grade student [Nov. 7]. I was struck by the complexity of God's will in our lives. Could Parks have dreamed, as she rode the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 and refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, that 50 years later a white boy in Texas would speak her name reverently...
...money from migrants has now overshot exports, and exceeds direct foreign aid from other governments. "The way these numbers have increased is mind-boggling," says Dilip Ratha, a senior economist for the World Bank and co-author of a new Bank report on remittances. Ratha says he was so struck by the figures that he rechecked his research several times, wondering if he might have miscalculated. Indeed, he believes the true figure for remittances this year is probably closer to $350 billion, since migrants are estimated to send one-third of their money using unofficial methods, including taking it home...
...louder and more coarse” to win attention. He also suggested that journalists’ “bias toward conflict,” rewards politicians who breed contention, rather than those who cooperate. Joshua C. Sharp ’08, who attended the panel, said he was struck by the agreement among the panelists, despite their diverse backgrounds. He said this indicated the value of the IOP as a place where political opponents can meet and discover what they have in common. “This may be just as good an experience for them...
...custodians,” calling it “an acceptable middle ground.” Negotiators from Harvard and the SEIU Local 615 first sat down at the table on Sept. 22 and vetted 60 different proposals during 14 negotiating sessions, according to Wrinn. The two sides finally struck the tentative agreement after a 12-hour session the day the old contract was set to expire. Starting janitors at Harvard are currently paid $13.50 per hour, a wage set by the previous contract. The first increase will come in July 2006, when the starting wage will rise...
...daytime comes a cornucopia of panels spilling over with buzzwords, a spectacle undertaken to justify comfortable existences and expense accounts. Fresh off the plane, I attended a dreadful panel on “Indigenous Women and European Men.” It started with a red-haired Englishwoman who struck a grave face and tone and peering over her grandmotherly spectacles began, “Colonizers saw the land as a passive, indigenous woman open to the penetration of European men.” Colonial historians have an enduring fondness for imagery of rape, and to satiate it, there followed...