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...hallway in the sky-lit Shapiro rotunda, a well-heeled, predominantly 30-40 year-old crowd mingled over live music while munching on tapas, sipping bellini martinis (the month’s featured cocktail) and admiring the beautiful early twentieth century murals by John Singer Sargent. To the right of the upper rotunda in the grand colonnade, gossiping guests clung to an ornate railing, overlooking one of the lower galleries. Others reclined in luxurious brown leather couches and chairs, chatting amidst paintings by turn-of-the-century American painters. The scene was quintessential Gatsby—cultured, decadent and highly...
Other works include Wage Determination Under Trade Unions (1944), Collective Bargaining: Principles and Cases (1949), Labor in the Twentieth Century (1978) and Labor and the American Community (1970), which he co-authored with...
...Democratic Party has a strong record on national security: in the twentieth century, America successfully defended its allies in two world wars under the leadership of two Democratic presidents. But the cowardly faction of the Democratic Party seems to have forgotten the example of another Democrat: President John F. Kennedy ’40, who averted nuclear war by exercising restraint during the Cuban Missile Crisis when the hawks in his administration wanted a preemptive strike. A leader who is strong on national security does not recklessly throw troops into conflict at any and every opportunity, but exercises sound judgment...
...both sides of the border are regularly intercepting members of the I.R.A. factions as they set out on attacks. But they still worry about what would happen if the information breaks down. "Even if we stop 19 out of 20 attacks," says a police source in Northern Ireland, "the twentieth could be devastating." That's exactly what happened five years ago in Omagh. Three months after voters across Ireland overwhelmingly endorsed the 1998 Good Friday peace settlement, dissidents slipped a massive car bomb past security forces. The bomb deepened the resolve to make the peace process work, but left lingering...
Okyere began living on the Cambridge streets around the time of her twentieth class reunion in June 2001, says Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) spokesperson Steven G. Catalano...