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...your gift recipient is exclusively a swimmer, Sakowitz will construct a 734-sq.-ft. Texas-shaped swimming pool filled with 30,687 gallons of Perrier water for $127,174.32. You provide the twist of lime...
Journalists shook their heads in confusion at this latest twist in Iranian press relations. "They're either tossing you out or giving you lunch," mused one. But Bani-sadr's pitch for newspaper diplomacy underlined the crucial and delicate role the press is playing in the confrontation...
...continuing saga of the Graduate School of Design's (GSD) City and Regional Planning (CRP) program took its most bizarre, and possibly final, twist earlier this week as President Bok announced his desire to transfer the program to the Kennedy School of Government...
...fact that serious academic work will be blatantly misused, especially for fascist causes, is always a reason for concern. But one has to distinguish the serious and knowledge-seeking inquiry (which is always open to challenge and debate) from that misuse. Unscrupulous persons will always twist material for their ends. In 1942, I was managing editor of The New Leader, a social-democratic weekly. I wrote at that time a number of articles attacking the practice of "Jim Crow" in the American Army-the vicious discrimination against blacks. I remember meeting A. Phillip Randolph in Washington, where he had gone...
...period of rapid inflation, well-organized workers and those with scarce skills can protect themselves better, but even they eventually fall behind rising costs, and their living standards decline. Like Oliver Twist, American workers are expected to begin asking, "Please, sir. I want some more." The minimum wage is already due to rise next Jan. 1 from $2.90 an hour to $3.10. Nonunion workers are likely to start demanding greater pay hikes to catch up with both union salaries and inflation...