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...scale and pace of this transformation is neatly illustrated by the marvelous “Goodbye Lenin” story of Jan Grzebski, who woke up from a 19-year coma four days ago. When the former Polish railway worker suffered his horrific accident in 1988, millions of people languished behind the Iron Curtain, Americans practiced nuclear shelter drills, and students had to navigate the Dewey decimal system—a life unimaginable today. In Jan’s words, “When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat...
...closed the speech with a story of an acquaintance—an aid worker in Darfur—who was so stricken by the horror of her experiences there that she was reduced to tears upon the simple sight of a birdfeeder...
...best known to the Harvard community as a co-writer of “The Tent Commandments,” this year’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals production. “For me, I don’t consider myself remarkably brilliant or even the hardest worker,” Phillips said. “In fact I did a lot of extracurriculars.” But, he added, “I kept pretty organized juggling both the extracurriculars and the academics—it seemed to work.” Phillips, who was making his second...
After a nine-day-long hunger strike in May, Stand for Security, a student group founded to protest the treatment of Harvard’s subcontracted security guards, secured a meeting with administrators and a reaffirmation of Harvard’s commitment to worker welfare. The hunger strikers’ goals were laudable—it is vital that Harvard treat its workers, including subcontracted workers, with respect and generosity. We wholeheartedly support Stand for Security’s demands, such as the institution of fair grievance procedures, hiring full-time, instead of part-time, workers when possible...
...passive resistance: When a Shell worker made for his field to start pegging out the pipeline route, Corduff was having none of it: "I said 'If he goes in, I'm going in and if he's better than me he'll come out and if I'm better than him, I'll come out.' " Corduff was arrested and, along with four other local landowners, hauled before a judge 200 miles away in Dublin who, at Shell's insistence, imprisoned the men for contempt of court for violating the injunction against interfering with work on the pipeline. After...