Word: unionism
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...minute after police said they would not be able to protect participants from attacks by ultranationalist thugs. In addition to promoting gay rights, the parade was supposed to show that a decade after the end of the Balkan wars, Serbia is a functional democracy, ready to join the European Union. Instead, the cancellation of the event raised a stark question: Can Serbia continue its march toward the West if it can't put an end to the intimidation tactics of militant ultranationalist groups? (See pictures of the gay-rights movement...
...people who had wanted to demonstrate peacefully had lost. Those who were prepared to use all means to stop them had won." Some Serbian politicians were even more forceful in their condemnation: "The state has capitulated under threats of fascists," Zarko Korac, a parliament member from the Social Democratic Union party, was quoted as saying by the Serbian news website Pescanik...
...clean lifestyles. Harvard’s janitors are a valuable part of the university community, but Harvard’s decision to let some people go to manage costs during tough times was understandable and necessary. The efforts of those janitors remaining are admirable, and we encourage the union not to disparage both their efforts and those of the university as a whole by associating layoffs with decreased cleanliness. Harvard is making an earnest and thorough effort to keep students clean and healthy this fall, and, inevitably, much of the responsibility for the health of the College will fall...
Correction included: A previous version of the article above incorrectly cited the Student Labor Action Movement as having organized and led the protest. In fact, it was put on by union officials. The Crimson regrets the error...
...coalition of SPD and Greens. Polling stations closed at 6 p.m., and the CDU started celebrating as television broadcasters published the results of exit polls that seemed to confirm its victory. At 6:47 p.m., Edmund Stoiber, the leader of the CDU's Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) and a Chancellor candidate for both, declared himself the winner. "One thing is clear already," he said, beaming. "The CDU, the CSU - we have won the election!" And so it seemed, based on the tally of existing seats the Christian Democrats had snared. But when the official results came...