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Harvard once employed its security guards directly, and those guards enjoyed membership in the Harvard University Security, Parking, and Museum Guards Union. But the University gradually outsourced its guards because of financial losses, a process completed in 2004. To fill the void, Harvard subcontracted with Security Services Incorporated—now AlliedBarton—which did not permit its Harvard employees to unionize...
...Somalia's future hangs on whether the new government can achieve that reconciliation. Since the collapse of the last functioning government in 1992, Somalia has been a prisoner of bloody anarchy, a void filled by vicious and impressively armed chaos, as rival warlords, clans and sub-clans and Islamists prosecuted a series of civil wars - over power, over historic tribal animosities and over competing visions of Islam. Last summer, the Islamist Courts Union - an alliance of clerics and clan leaders - took over Mogadishu and forced the warlords out. In the last two weeks, the T.F.G, backed by thousands of troops...
...America and their sympathizers in the West. In many cases, critics use Pinochet’s human rights abuses as convenient philosophical dressing to cloak the real reason for why they oppose him: He successfully proved the fallacies of the destructive ideology of statist socialism—an ideology void of morality, contrary to human nature, and totally dysfunctional in practice. It is ideologically opposed to the principles on which modern Western nations were founded, yet unfortunately still enjoys deep support at Harvard and throughout the Western intellectual establishment. Pinochet spent his political career fighting its evil, and for that...
...Best & Co. name was first revived in 1997 when Susie Hilfiger saw a void in the kids' market and acquired the name of a beloved, but bankrupt, department store. "It clothed generations of children and it was the go-to resource for beautiful, classic children's clothing," explains Renfrew. That has been the company's mission since the first Best & Co.'s demise 35 years...
Imagine a UC that doesn’t politicize into the void, that doesn’t curse the darkness, but instead a UC that is proactive and practical, results-oriented, capable, and successful—a student government we would be proud...