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...this isn't DAVE MATTHEWS' new horn section. It's a scene from the movie Because of Winn-Dixie, in which the folksy jam-band leader plays a pet-store worker who is also "a guitar-strumming felon," Matthews says. "At least in that department I was somewhat qualified." The Wayne Wang film, due out next August, stars newcomer ANNASOPHIA ROBB and oldcomer Eva Marie Saint. Matthews, who dabbled in local theater before his music career took off, says he was reluctant to play a musician in his screen debut. "If I'm going to stumble blindly around the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Look: Dave's Pet Project | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...curious addition to the toy frenzy was a foot-long massager. The male worker who picked it up looked a bit uneasy...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: M. Hockey Notebook: Futility on the Power Play Dooms Men’s Hockey to Mediocre Start | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

Approximately 20 workers and as many students gathered in the Adams House Lower Common Room Saturday to mark Worker Appreciation...

Author: By Charles J. Mcnamara, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students, Staff Honor Harvard Employees | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

Harvard Students Against Sweatshops (HSAS) has lobbied the University for five years to join the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), a coalition of universities, students and labor experts that acts as a watchdog over factories manufacturing school apparel. Over 100 schools are already members...

Author: By Stephen M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Will Join Sweatshop Watchdog Group | 12/2/2003 | See Source »

...that age--[I didn't want] to replace those intellectual challenges with golf," he says. He tried traveling, and he puttered around his Longmeadow, Mass., home, but nothing gave him the thrill of international work. Having done some Gillette work in Eastern Europe, he jumped when a former co-worker suggested that he sign up with I.E.S.C., which assigned him to projects in Kazakhstan and Russia. He's now back to fast-paced work, converting biochemical-warfare facilities into peacetime factories and, in tandem with U.S. agencies, finding jobs for former government scientists. "It's incredibly rewarding," he says, being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Volunteer Army | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

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