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...different from other corporations, and pressure tactics are just as appropriate and necessary here as anywhere else. Students, and workers especially, have virtually no say in university decision-making. If a large portion of the Harvard community believes that university policies are unjust, Harvard offers nothing more than infrequent token meetings with administrators. We all prefer to be part of a university with democratic structures in place to ensure that policies are accountable to students, faculty, and workers. But the incredibly authoritarian way Harvard operates ensures that broad university problems will only be resolved, if at all, in the same...
...doesn't pretend it's pretty. Representative Tom Davis, a Rove ally who is chairman of the House G.O.P.'s campaign committee, has set off howls by anointing individual candidates in contested primaries across the country. And Rove's minesweepers cleared the Republican field of all but token opposition for Senate candidates Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina, John Thune in South Dakota and Norm Coleman in Minnesota, who is running against incumbent Democrat Paul Wellstone. Rove called Coleman's expected primary rival, Minnesota house majority leader Tim Pawlenty, and asked him to step aside. After Pawlenty turned Rove down, Cheney...
...government has forced gas and rail workers back to work with token concessions. But at the end of last week, Lee and his men were vowing to hold out. Says Lee: "We'll stay here until we win." With sentiment running against him, he could be facing a long, cold wait...
...These Days, Diversity Means Token White People. How Far We’ve Come...
...These kids aren’t playing for individual awards,” Stone said. “I’m disappointed, but on the same token, it’s not what it’s about for this group of kids...