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PSLM made national headlines in 2001 when it spearheaded a three-week sit-in of Mass. Hall that prompted a review of the University’s labor policies. But since PSLM’s Living Wage Campaign—a three-year movement begun in 1998 which culminated with 50 PSLM members occupying Mass. Hall—came to an informal end, the organization has nearly vanished from the labor frontlines...
...It’s been a relatively quiet year for PSLM, but at the same time it’s been a rebuilding year,” says Faisal I. Chaudhry, who was a first-year Harvard Law School student when he participated in the three-week Mass. Hall occupation. “There’s a new current on campus in terms of student activism. PSLM has not only been reconfiguring itself, but also trying to figure out its relationship to these other currents...
Right now, though, the Tour is everything, and Armstrong the training fanatic is pedaling away furiously in the hills near his home in Girona, Spain. Given his age, the odds of winning another three-week, 2,100-mile Tour seem long. But anyone who wants to beat Armstrong should be prepared for pain. As he told the Times of London, "When I was sick, I didn't want to die. When I race, I don't want to lose. Dying and losing, it's the same thing." --By Bill Saporito
...Embedded and in person, Carlson often cites a back-of-the-envelope statistical calculation that, as a group, journalists were about ten times as likely as coalition soldiers to die during the three-week ground phase of the Iraqi war. The book concludes with a list of 16 journalists (out of 2700) known to have died in Iraq between March 22 and July 6, 2003—13 of them during the earlier three-week period, in contrast with 135 coalition soldiers (out of 250,000) killed in that initial phase...
After a stint in prison and a three-week hiatus, Dan Mathews, vice president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) returned to Harvard Square yesterday, only this time fully clothed...