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When midnight arrived on March 6, 1957, church bells sounded across Accra. The crowds, which had filled the city streets with the hum of celebration and hope, pushed into the square outside Parliament and cheered as Britain's Union flag was lowered and the green, gold and red colors of the new nation of Ghana were hoisted in a light breeze. In a nearby polo ground, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah broke into dance and then spoke of a dream finally realized. "Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world," he declared. "At long last the battle...
...employees to become partners in the company. "If we're all still here today, it's because Spinetta convinced workers that he was serious about negotiating and that the sacrifices we had to make were just," says Gilles Nicoli, secretary-general of the Democratic Confederation of French Labor union representing Air France workers...
That hasn't gone unnoticed in the rest of Europe. The Polish story is feeding the debate as new countries such as Romania and Bulgaria join the E.U. As the Union continues to expand to the east, the toughest question facing its older members is whether to open labor markets. Among ordinary Europeans, opposition to enlargement has focused on the fear of losing jobs and the impact on expensive social welfare systems. (Despite their positive experience with Poland and other Eastern countries, both Britain and Ireland decided to maintain labor restrictions on Romania and Bulgaria for the time being...
...same time, the membership of Students for Choice had suffered exponential decay, plunging from 80 members to six over a period of just a few years, and the Harvard College Democrats and Radcliffe Union of Students, all bastions of the common conception of feminist activity, were in similarly dire straits. In Harvard’s feminist heyday, Democrat Bill Clinton was president, and the political climate of the country was heading to the left. “I think part of that might have been because of a complacency that was bred by success,” says Radcliffe Union...
It’s not often that Harvard has an opportunity to beat the European Union (EU). But dissociating itself from eggs laid by hens raised in inhumanely small cages may present an opportunity. One of the cruelest products of modern factory farms, eggs laid by caged hens will be banned by the UE by 2012. Now a group of students is urging Harvard to go cage-free first, and they have amassed almost 1,000 student signatures in support. We agree: For ethical and environmental reasons, Harvard dining halls should switch to serving only cage-free eggs...