Word: verdicts
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Despite the anti-union campaign--and, in some cases, because of it--a majority of the support staff voted for the union. Yet, the administration jumped in to challenge the verdict. Even though the closeness of the vote may have justified this interference, Harvard's action casts further doubt on its attitude toward workers and their ability to decide their own fate. Such challenges are a common tactic for employers to delay a union's certification and contract negotiations; the University has already dragged out past union election bids for as long as two years--decreasing awareness of the issues...
Judge Garrity, who later dismissed all other remaining charges against the University, upheld the jury's verdict earlier this month. But because separate decisions were reached by the judge and the jury, both sides of the case are appealing the results...
Mamet has said that his screenwriting, beginning with The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) and including his Oscar-nominated script for The Verdict (1982), "forced on me the issue of plot." He acknowledged to friends that Glengarry was the first of his plays to have anything resembling a workable second act. But Speed-the-Plow has two huge holes in its narrative. First, the effort to persuade Mantegna's character to believe in the book takes place almost entirely offstage. Second, right up to the end it is impossible to tell whether the book is brilliance or bilge...
Yesterday the jury rendered its verdict: guilty. They banished me to Hilles...
...rising nostalgia about Bobby seems to embody an inchoate yearning for a time in U.S. political life when everything seemed possible: topple a President, end a war, bring peace between the races, fight poverty and injustice. Whatever verdict history renders on the short life of Bobby Kennedy, this is certain: he brought a passion to public life, a sense that government in the hands of the right people could be mobilized for something good. Politics mattered. Like other times when the country gave up its individual dreams for a collective vision -- during the World Wars, the Depression -- there seemed...