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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...

Author: By Rosa M. Norton, Jose G. Olivarez, and Jessica G. Ranucci | Title: Harvard’s Invisible Victims | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gates Named Univ. Professor | 10/24/2006 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE MALCOM X-FACTOR: New Jersey Trip Leads to Reversal of Fortunes | 10/24/2006 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economic Development: The Future Is Bright | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

...girlfriends are harassed by creepy Gollum types on an extreme caving trip in Appalachia Cost: $6 million Box office $44 million From his deathbed, a man directs a doctor and an aggrieved dad in new games Cost: $10 million Box office: Opens this week ICKIEST SCENE Two men wake up chained to pipes in a dirty bathroom and must saw off their feet to go free A woman's intestines gleam in the sun after she's smacked by a truck A Japanese tourist loses an eyeball to a blowtorch-wielding American businessman A man fights an ax-wielding mutant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Splat Pack | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

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