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Last night the Harvard Political Union, an outreach subgroup of the Institute of Politics, brought together the leaders of six other campus ethnic organizations to discuss and debate the state of race relations on Harvard’s campus. For many audience members, the event was a rare coming together of the usually disparate segments of Harvard’s active ethnic communities to discuss one of the most controversial issues in public life. Among the groups represented were the student associations for Harvard’s black, Chinese, Asian American, South Asian and Latin American communities...
...sergeant Brian Elledge, who happened to be passing in the other direction in his cruiser. Elledge whipped around and pulled Hackbart over, citing him under the state's disorderly-conduct law, which bans obscene language and gestures. And here's where the problem lies, says state American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) legal director Witold (Vic) Walczak: the middle finger and equivalent swear words are not legally obscene. In fact, courts have consistently ruled that foul language is a constitutionally protected form of expression. A famous 1971 Supreme Court case upheld the right of a young man to enter...
Since late 2006, Somalia's chaos has been felt ever more keenly around the world. The Islamists, under the umbrella organization of a group called the Islamic Courts Union, briefly took control of Mogadishu in spring 2006. But radicals in their ranks declared a jihad on neighboring Ethiopia - a mixed Muslim and Christian country - and Ethiopia invaded Somalia in December of that year. U.S. special operations troops hitched a ride with that operation, using the opportunity to track down the U.S. embassy bombers and any other al-Qaeda operatives in the country. During that invasion, al-Qaeda bombmaker Tariq Abdullah...
...However, the heads of other firms, such as GM, have dismissed the possibility of similar deals. Moreover, the longer negotiations drag out between the union and automakers, the greater the danger of bankruptcy becomes. The answer, it seems, is some form of employee buyout. As Bloom himself has said, worker ownership is an ideal way to bring unions and management into a more constructive relationship. “Companies would come and ask unions to modify agreements in one way or another,” Bloom told The American Prospect’s Tim Fernholz...
...Working as advisors to the pilots’ union, Keilin and Bloom orchestrated a buyout in which United employees, through their unions, bought a 55 percent stake in the company. The results were staggeringly positive. Worker grievances plummeted while the firm’s productivity and profit margins soared. Previous skeptics appeared to be swayed. BusinessWeek devoted a cover story to the success of worker ownership, including praise from sources as unlikely as a Merrill Lynch analyst and an executive at a rival airline...