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Liliana Antelo, one of the co-chairs of the Concilio Latino, an umbrella organization for Latino student groups at Harvard’s various schools, said she has seen great interest among the Latino community at Harvard in the field of Latino studies, but she believes efforts might be better directed toward expanding a general ethnic studies program than a program specific to Latino studies...
...they have learned something about themselves. One might argue that journalism should be unbending and obvious, that we don’t read The New York Times to learn about ourselves. Perhaps sarcasm is strictly the province of novelists and playwrights. But might we include columnists under the sarcasm umbrella? My own published sarcasm gives me the chance to learn about my readers, to learn about myself and to learn about myself more if the Yardstick column gets renewed for another semester. Just kidding. Sort...
...person to person," the court said. The door was left firmly ajar for future challenges, as well: the Justices, who sent the case back to a lower court for reconsideration, also declined to rule on whether work is itself considered an "everyday task," and thereby included under the ADA umbrella. (The ADA applies to all workplaces, public and private, with more than 15 employees...
...surprisingly, the domestic helpers are pessimistic about the outcome of the review. "We really feel under attack," says Filipina Lori Brunio, who has worked as a maid in Hong Kong for eight years and heads the Coalition for Migrants' Rights, an umbrella group of foreign workers' organizations. On Dec. 16, the group organized a noisy march to protest the proposed wage cut. Brunio says that many maids are already underpaid?earning as little as half the legal rate?and don't even get a day off each week. "Hong Kong people know that conditions in our countries mean that...
...umbrella organization that has been overwhelmingly secular since its inception. Today it remains dominated by the secular nationalists of Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization. Before Oslo, the PLO's affiliate organizations, which included smaller leftist groups such as the PFLP and DFLP, operated from exile in the Arab world. The PLO's various factions maintained small guerrilla wings that periodically carried out terror attacks against Israeli targets, and also operated illegal underground structures in the West Bank and Gaza...