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Around two dozen student activists began a day-long fast yesterday morning in an attempt to sway the contract negotiations of Harvard’s security guards with their employer AlliedBarton. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...might need to put more pressure on the administration before we get a response,” said Jessica G. Ranucci ’10. CORRECTION: The April 27 news article "Students Fast for Guards" misstated the number of students who held a day-long fast to sway contract negotiations for Harvard's security guards. While the article said that about two dozen students participated in the fast, that figure actually referred to the number of students protesting outside the office of University President Derek C. Bok. In fact, a total of about 75 students participated in the fast...
Relations between white and red men were the most variable factor in Jamestown's early history. The western Chesapeake was ruled by Wahunsonacock, chief of the Powhatan. He was an expansionist, no less than the English, having brought 30 local tribes under his sway, an empire of 15,000 people. In December 1607, Smith described his royal state: "He sat covered with a great robe, made of raccoon skins, and all the tails hanging by," flanked by "two rows of men, and behind them as many women, with all their heads and shoulders painted red." The settlers hoped to make...
...curious about at what hours women could visit the River Houses seven decades ago, parietal rules are on the wall—but thankfully not in force. Also hanging is a giant register of every Game and its score, revealing that Harvard holds sway o’er old Eli with startling inconsistency. The Pub was overwhelmingly popular at its opening, no doubt buttressed by hoards of curious undergrads and the promise of special events. The live music helped to make last weekend an unqualified success, as one hopes it will continue to do for years to come. But this...
...characters in B.C., the Stone Age comic strip created in 1958 by Johnny Hart, made readers laugh by pondering naively the wonders of fire, stone and the wheel. (A prehistoric dictionary defines rock as "to cause something to swing or sway--by hitting them with it!") More controversial were the religious panels Hart occasionally drew after he converted to evangelical Christianity. A 2001 Easter strip of a menorah slowly transforming into a cross led several newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, to drop B.C. Hart, who told a reporter that "Jews and Muslims who don't accept Jesus will burn...