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That decision, she explained, was made largely on the basis of "personnel relations." By shutting the University down on a Friday, employees gained an unexpected bonus--a three-day weekend...
...course, every party has its poopers. Parisians grumbled about draconian parking restrictions. Opposition leaders complained that the three-day affair was costly evidence of Mitterrand's "megalomania" (estimates range from $66 million to $280 million), moving Culture Minister Jack Lang to rage against "grinches and killjoys." But such petty squabbles could not spoil the flamboyant funky fun of the Florida A&M University marching band, gliding in a moonwalk down the Champs Elysees. Nor could they dampen the soaring spirit evoked when American diva Jessye Norman, wrapped in the blue, white and red colors of the French flag, sang...
...West Germany was more a case of Gorbylike in France. Ever the skeptics, Parisians welcomed the Soviet leader for the second time in four years but failed to shower him with the kind of ecstatic hero worship he received a month ago in Bonn. During a curiously muted three-day visit, French commentators noted, Mikhail Gorbachev disappointed "a lot of people who were just waiting to become admirers...
When the contract summary appeared on the morning of June 26, a group of approximately 10 HUCTW members, activists and former contract negotiators met to study and discuss it. We were appalled by the three-day limit for examining the contract. We had serious questions about the strength and adequacy of the contract to support union members over the next three years in the face of Boston area costs of living and the threat of a national recession. We were outraged that no public debate was permitted the membership until after the voting on June 29. We wrote a collective...
...Advent in Boston. Church traditionalists like himself, Mead charged, for too long have been "victims of exclusion, ridicule and financial pressure," and are tired of being treated by church liberals as if they were "brain-dead." Mead and 1,800 like-thinking Episcopalians retaliated earlier this month during a three-day meeting in Fort Worth, where they formed an independent church-within-a-church called the Episcopal Synod of America. It is likely to bedevil the Episcopal Church for years to come...