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Students hustling to noon classes yesterday were greeted outside the Science Center with nearly 100 chanting participants in a national walkout to protest the war in Iraq and military recruitment in schools. Local high schoolers—who said they were risking suspension by cutting classes—joined workers and Harvard students in front of the Science Center. A graduate student in molecular and cellular biology, Kaveri Rajaraman, shouted over a loudspeaker, “If the United States government does not pull out of Iraq, there will be trouble.” After the Science Center rally, nearly...
...longest and most violent U.S. strikes since World War II, and it summoned images of the feuding Hatfields and McCoys. By the time it ended last month, the United Mine Workers' 15-month walkout against the A.T. Massey Coal Co. had left one person dead and hundreds wounded, and caused millions of dollars' worth of damage on both sides of the Kentucky-West Virginia line...
...Marathon Oil in 1982, were engineered by strong-willed Chairman Roderick precisely to raise the ante for would-be raiders. With the steel and energy businesses reeling, Roderick last August decided to pick a fight with the United Steelworkers over pay-and-benefit concessions. The resulting 16-plant walkout, involving some 22,000 U.S.W. members, has been ugly at times; strikers have blocked railway spurs at mills to prevent the sale of steel from the company's stockpile...
...union wants an across-the-board raise of 22%. The union claims it can get 240,000 workers to walk out. The Chamber of Mines, the trade association that handles wage negotiations, says the real number is closer to 65,000. Either way, the walkout could create still another arena of conflict between blacks and whites...
Perhaps it was the boos and catcalls that made the players and the owners settle so quickly. Or the coolly persuasive presence of Peter Ueberroth, the former Olympic czar turned baseball commissioner, who publicly positioned himself as the fans' representative. Or the sheer cost of the walkout: on average, $2,000 a day in salary per athlete, $1.17 million a day in revenue per owner. In any case, the players had barely finished packing up their gloves and blow-dryers to head home last week when word filtered out that the strike was over. By Thursday, two days after...