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...have been employed without a contract since January 2002. Along with the inconvenience of closed dining halls and curtailed student services, the standoff put Yale students in the awkward situation of having to cross picket lines to get to class. Hopefully the contract will prevent any recurrence of such turmoil in the near future...
...pulled it off. By Tuesday evening the Applebaum home in Jerusalem's Kiryat Shmuel neighborhood was in happy turmoil. Several hundred guests had arrived in town from as far away as Australia, and David's wife Debra was making last-minute adjustments to seating plans for the wedding dinner. Nava, a cheerful young woman who had done her national service attending children with cancer and who wanted to study chemistry to help battle the disease, was even more radiant than usual, having returned home after a cleansing ceremony in a ritual bath. As the night wore on and people...
...picking up at Listen.com where the number of songs "streamed," or played as if the customer were listening to the radio, has doubled to more than 500,000 a day since April. But competition from illegal downloading services has put the legit pioneers through a lot of corporate turmoil. Listen.com was bought this summer by RealNetworks; Pressplay, the service begun by record labels Universal and Sony, is now owned by softwaremaker Roxio, which also bought the rights to the defunct Napster brand; MusicNet, begun by the three other big labels, is now offered by America Online (which, like TIME...
...unaware of the carnage downtown. It was Sunday, Sept. 15, 1963. At 10:22 that morning, four black girls had been killed by a dynamite bomb set by the Ku Klux Klan at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. The church was a focal point of Birmingham's civil rights turmoil that year, but that unrest hadn't touched Virgil and his coal-mining family, who lived in a modest, all-black suburb and rarely even saw white people. All Virgil had on his mind that day was the money he and his brothers were going to make with the newspaper...
...discussion with Lydon and the audience, Krugman argued that through misrepresentation in its policy proposals, the Bush Administration has spurred the country into economic, political and military turmoil...