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...familiar trapezoidal text-crawl tells us. "The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute." Immediately one is perplexed. A summary made sense in the earlier films; they were episodes IV, V and VI in the grand fable, and as continuations of an initially untold saga, they required some elucidation. But what's the need for back-story text in a tale that is just beginning? Can it be that Lucas was unable to dramatize these events, so he put them in the crawl? That would explain the gobs of dry exposition, devoted to blustering, filibustering debates...
Students in the campaign have spoken with hundreds of workers about their jobs and their wages. We have discovered untold stories at Harvard, stories of employees' lives and work and struggles. We have dispersed information and garnered a broad base of support from other students, faculty, alumni, faith communities and the city of Cambridge. We have demonstrated nonviolently. Since the campaign's beginnings, many have noted that our single demand and the convictions that drive it are really quite basic, that they reflect a common-sense respect for human dignity and fair employment...
Students in the campaign have spoken with hundreds of workers about their jobs and their wages. We have discovered untold stories at Harvard, stories of employees' lives and work and struggles. We have dispersed information and garnered a broad base of support from other students, faculty, alumni, faith communities and the city of Cambridge. We have demonstrated nonviolently. Since the campaign's beginnings, many have noted that our single demand and the convictions that drive it are really quite basic, that they reflect a common-sense respect for human dignity and fair employment...
Dodson recently published Don't Call Us Out of Name: The Untold Lives of Women and Girls in Poor America, a study of the lives of women and young girls living below the poverty line...
Christopher J. Vaeth, a second-year student atthe Divinity School and one of the rally'sorganizers, attempted to put a human face on theissue of higher wages. "It's easy to walk right byand ignore the workers sweeping up behind you," hesaid. "There are untold stories here at Harvardand you just stop and listen to their stories andyou can learn more than any book can teach...