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...prompt a broad anti-discrimination policy that would extend to all workers at Harvard, including those who aren’t in a union. She and others at the meeting plan to draft an initial version of the new language this week and discuss it at a meeting next Thursday night. “All workers and students should be able to guarantee these principles and tenets that have been drafted by the community itself,” Aguilera said. Childs said he sees the incident as just one example of increasing intolerance, especially after the passage of Proposition...
...solution on the more than $900 billion stimulus bill. Nelson won't provide an exact number of Senators involved in these talks, coyly trying to avoid yet another gang label. (Enterprising reporters have counted conferees going in - there are 18, including six Republicans.) The talks dragged on well into Thursday evening, and they could yield a legislative victory for Obama as early as today in the Senate. (Read "How to Spend a Trillion Dollars...
...President may well know that, but he also knows that Congress has to act quickly, especially with another round of dismal economic and unemployment numbers coming out Friday. After spending much of his first two weeks in office reaching out to Republicans, Obama showed a tougher side on Thursday, telling House Democrats at a retreat in Virginia that Republicans who have been pushing amendments to add more and more tax cuts to the legislation want to return "to the same policies that for the last eight years doubled the national debt and threw our economy into a tailspin." His growing...
...collection of interviews, titled Femme Debout (Standing Woman), is expected to fly off bookshelves when it hits stores Thursday. As the title suggests, the book seeks to dispel any suspicion that a series of setbacks Royal has suffered since her May 2007 loss to Sarkozy has weakened in any way her bid for another run in 2012. In addition to the jabs at those she feels are conspiring to block her path, Royal also punctuates the book's pages with the boundless self-confidence that has proven both an asset and a liability to her over time. (See pictures...
...Iraqis were given the right to choose their leaders at the polls, Allawi lost out to the parties based on Shi'ite and Sunni identity. Since then, he and his party have been working to promote a more secular approach to Iraqi governance, and the preliminary returns released on Thursday for Iraq's provincial elections show they are making gains - at least relative to their marginalization in the two previous national elections. (See pictures of the return to normalcy on Iraq's streets...