Word: wakes
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...library and technical workers were laid off. Of those who remain, several have told the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) that they’ve been threatened with termination for speaking out. Janitors and dining hall workers, although they’ve won higher wages and benefits in the wake of student-worker campaigns, report continuing incidents of harassment and discrimination on a regular basis...
...overtime victory over Yale in New Haven.It was a win for the ages, with a maturing-by-the-minute O’Hagan leading the second-half comeback and finishing 22-of-35 for 251 yards and two touchdowns.But then came the summer of controversy, during which, in the wake of the arrest and suspension of former captain Matt Thomas, Crimson head coach Tim Murphy mysteriously docked O’Hagan the first five games of the upcoming season for violating team rules. The suspension left the starting quarterback job to Chris Pizzotti, a Massachusetts native who missed the entire...
...Lawrence Bobo, and Gwendolyn Du Bois Shaw, Gates helped the department weather the exoduses and continued adding to the faculty ranks. Af-Am’s new chair, Higginbotham, leads a department boosted by the arrival of several new professors and an added focus on African Studies.Even in the wake of seven major surgeries since 2000, Gates is hard at work. Last year he appeared onscreen in crutches for “African American Lives,” a four-hour PBS documentary in which he and other famous African Americans uncovered their ancestral roots...
...guess things aren’t all bad, though. We don’t have to wake up in Jersey every morning, and it’ll be two years before Princeton has another chance to do what they did this weekend. Plus, if they fought, our former football player-turned-prominent-actor (Tommy Lee Jones) would so beat theirs (Dean Cane...
...fossil-fuel costs rise, though, the U.S. could become more competitive. "As an industry we are probably five years behind Germany," says Rhone Resch, president of Washington-based SEIA, who compares solar with the software and computer industries in their early stages. "But the U.S. market is starting to wake up." SEIA projects the U.S. will be the world's biggest market, with $25 billion in revenues, within five years...