Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with a series of events including a debate on Security Council reform, a student discussion of the future role of the UN, a Science Center exhibition, an international food festival and cultural show and a film screening. Each is intended to spark campus discussion of the United Nations' status today...
...shortsightedly confine the definition of American national interest to the present domestic agenda. While health care policy, campaign finance reform, social security surpluses and tax cuts deserve public discussion, we cheat ourselves if we believe that these issues are the only ones affecting America today. The true challenge for policy makers is not how to escape the entangling alliances of international institutions, but how to bring events in other parts of the world into the daily consciousness of the American people...
...film about the insanity of pretension. First-time director Spike Jonze, a longtime music video artiste, has filmed it with collaborator Lance Acord to underplay the fantastic elements of the storyline and accentuate the dirty realness of the images; the plot is deeply surreal, but the setting is today's world, crazy as it actually...
...Today, janitors face these same conditions and they risk meeting the same fate as the guards. Anyone who has spoken to janitors recently can attest to the fact that they are as demoralized as our guards last spring, just before the University broke their union and drove them out of our community. Janitors who have worked in our houses for as many as 20 years have told us that their wages have become so inadequate and their treatment so disrespectful that if Harvard offered them buy-out packages, they would take them...
Harvard's abuse of workers must stop. Our community can no longer permit the impoverishment of its members--janitors, security guards or whoever. We must refuse to permit the purging of workers who have devoted their lives to this University. Today, the janitors begin their contract negotiations. Students, faculty and workers must now publicly make clear that we will not accept the degradation and abuse of any member of our community. We need to publicly make clear that we stand in solidarity with our janitors...