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According to the report, Harvard currently employs more than a thousand workers (a figure that does not include part-time, or “casual,” employees) who earn less than the “living wage” of $10.68 determined by the Cambridge City Council last year. Most of these workers, some 95 percent, are employed as custodians, dining hall staff, security guards and parking attendants. Nearly three out of four low-wage laborers at Harvard are recent immigrants and people of color; more than a third lack a high school degree. In an attempt...
...That's great news for the country's volunteer leaders. "Four thousand hours is an ambitious goal," says Sandy Scott, spokesman for the Corporation for National and Community Service the federal agency that coordinates USA Freedom Corps, a new organization that matches Americans with volunteer opportunities. "But we hope people are up for it," he says. "So far, there's been a lot of outpouring of patriotic feeling, but that needs to be translated into good works." While volunteerism did surge briefly after 9/11, the numbers have leveled off again around 44 percent...
...interested kids e-mailed asking for more music, the group sent back mountains of tapes and instructions to pass them out to anyone with ears. By the time Linkin Park signed with Warner Bros. in November '99, the group had fans in Scotland, Japan and Australia and a worldwide thousand-person unpaid street team...
Eventually there was a wild armed pursuit through the streets of Tulsa as the whites pushed the blacks back into Greenwood. The next morning thousands of whites, including Tulsa police and scores of newly deputized thugs, invaded the neighborhood, looted it house by house and set it afire. In all 1,256 houses burned, as well as churches, a junior high school, a hospital and most of the area's businesses. Estimates of the dead, both black and white, varied from 36 to 300. Black residents were marched at gunpoint out of Greenwood. Six thousand were penned...
...York City fire fighter Mike Kehoe [THE FIREMAN, Dec. 31.-Jan. 7], who was photographed in the stairwell of the burning 1 World Trade Center: When people were making their way down the stairs of the building, fireman Kehoe chose to go up. He may not have saved a thousand lives, but his actions exemplified bravery. His "iconic" picture was seen internationally, and he got letters from people thanking him for his courage. It was sad to read that other fire fighters have grumbled at the attention he has received. We all mourn those who lost their lives and salute...