Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student body approved this option. Why? There are currently fewer than 300 workers who belong to the UFW. This is because employers do not like to hire union workers. UFW members cost more to hire than non-union members, and they have to be treated better since employers are subject to worker power. Nevertheless, if Harvard is determined only to buy UFW-picked grapes, more farmers might be encouraged to hire UFW workers...
...University of Arkansas and a writer for the local underground paper, he interviewed a young law professor named Bill Clinton who was planning to run for Congress. The idealistic Whitehead thought that Clinton could be another "people's candidate," like George McGovern, but he fretted to his interview subject that politicians often become "corrupt and phony." Don't worry, Clinton told Whitehead, "I won't let that happen...
...black youngsters say they've heard their parents say something negative about another race. One white father in Bridgeport, in an interview, went on at length about his capacity for racial tolerance (he helps send holiday turkeys to poor black families), but when he was asked about the subject of interracial dating, he declared, "Listen, if Jesus himself stepped down off the Cross asking to date my daughter, and he was black? I'd tell the guy to go to hell...
...weeks ago, when Boston University filed a lawsuit against eight outfits that actually sell papers, via the Web, to students too lazy or dumb to write their own. Sahr, you should know, is not a defendant in that suit since the thousands of papers at his site--on every subject from "The Tragedy of the Black Death" to "Why Nuclear Fusion Is So Cool"--are yours to download for free. (Help yourself.) But he runs the biggest of the term-paper sites, so everyone wants to interview him about this trivial and silly controversy. "I've never spent so much...
Anastasia and Pocahontas, however, fail to fall within the basic parameters of historical dialogues on their subject. Commenting on Pocahontas, Douglas B. Rand '98, one of Harvard's veteran Disney watchdogs and self-styled Disneyologist, has observed, "Pocahontas is not even revisionist history. It is not even debating the legitimacy of our current historical paradigm, because Disney is not even entering the realm of debate. Whereas we can have a scholarly discourse on what lens we use to view reality, Disney is going so far afield that they are concocting their own reality...