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...came to Boston with last year’s negotiations between this same union and Harvard over the contract that covers Harvard’s janitors, which is separate from the rest of the city. Those negotiations brought real gains for Harvard’s workers—sizable wage increases and more accessible benefits. The current citywide campaign seeks to bring similar improvements to all Boston’s janitors...
...serves up a foot-long chili dog at Town Pump, a Little Rock suds-and-sandwich shop. "It is sucking. And we need some change." That kind of attitude puts Hutchinson in a bind. Pryor notes, for instance, that the Republican has repeatedly voted against raising the minimum wage. Hutchinson counters that expanding the earned-income tax credit would be a better way to help the working poor, but he acknowledges that it's a complex argument: "Voters don't want to hear an economics lesson." If he can't find a better way to explain...
...College Greens and attendee of both the tailgate and the speech, said she related to Zinn’s speech “particularly because he emphasized the psychological component of war, the kind of falsities that a country’s people have to believe to wage war on another country’s people...
...malicious act of Communist aggression. For his lies, LBJ was rewarded with congressional authorization to escalate our fateful military adventure in Indochina. In 1990, the first President Bush employed bogus accounts of Iraqi soldiers tossing Kuwaiti newborns out of incubators to overcome the public’s unwillingness to wage war against the tyrant who had only months before been a celebrated U.S. ally...
...only to highlight his complete absence from campus life throughout the rest of that year. He merely made token appearances at home football games; whether he stayed past half-time—or even arrived before it— is anyone’s guess. Even during the Living Wage sit-in, at a time when his comments would have clarified and enriched the debate over Harvard’s labor policies, Rudenstine remained typically and irresponsibly silent...