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...ethnic-Chinese drug traffickers under the protection of Burmese military intelligence. Even the few positive changes seem, on closer inspection, not much to shout about. For example, Rangoon now boasts a dozen or so cybercaf?s, but they charge a dollar an hour?more than the average daily wage?and deny access to hundreds of sites deemed "inappropriate." Who surfs what is easy to plot, because Burma has only two Internet-service providers: one state run, the other owned by the son of military-intelligence chief General Khin Nyunt. The universities, traditionally crucibles of antigovernment protest, are open again?but only...
Lafantant said the proposed contract—in addition to the overtime wage cuts—would scale back the annual raise for drivers from this year’s four percent to two percent next year and would call for the union to provide drivers’ health care instead of Harvard...
...University is seeing budget cutbacks but is also on a project of expansion, and to finance that through benefit and wage cuts to its lowest paid workers is just unacceptable,” Mackinnon said...
...allied intelligence agencies - those of Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia - working in conjunction with the CIA, which was coordinating America's own covert assistance to the Afghan jihad. It suited the Egyptians and Saudis to ship off the restive Islamist elements who might pose a domestic challenge to wage war on the Soviets, and it suited the U.S. to help rally anti-Soviet sentiment in the Islamic world, particularly among Sunni elements naturally at odds with Iran. That's why a number of former intelligence personnel regard the emergence of the Qaeda phenomenon as 'blowback,' spook jargon for the unintended...
...said that the trend toward the elimination of union jobs at Harvard undermines the University’s wage parity policy that mandates that the University pays outsourced workers the same amount as unionized Harvard employees for the same...