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Having won the support of handful of colleagues, Bob King, a former 1960s-style activist who was once considered too radical to hold union office, is now the designated candidate to succeed Ron Gettelfinger as president of the United Auto Workers...
...starters, it’s a world divided starkly between good and evil, with very little of the cultural relativism that most liberals hold as a core tenet. “I do not believe that we will have the will, the determination, the staying power, to complete this work without something more—and that’s the continued expansion of our moral imagination, an insistence that there’s something irreducible that we all share,” argued Obama. In his next breath, he spelled it out explicitly: “As the world...
Students authorized to stay on campus during the upcoming three-week January term will not be allowed to hold parties or host guests—including fellow Harvard students not among the 1,316 cleared to stay—according to an statement e-mailed to The Crimson yesterday by Interim Director of Advising Programs Inge-Lise Ameer...
...surprisingly, Unite pledged Thursday to hold another vote, a process that usually takes at least a couple of weeks. But by bungling the first one and choosing to stretch out the proposed strike over 12 days - a duration BA staff weren't aware of at the time of the ballot - Unite may have let the momentum swing BA's way. Derek Simpson, the union's joint general secretary, admitted on Dec. 15 that the length of the stoppage was "probably over the top." Passengers, meanwhile, sided firmly with the airline. "It is disgusting that BA staff realize they can throw...
...still at the stage where there are raised suspicions toward Muslims," says Sajjad Karim, a British Muslim member of the European Parliament. "At airports, I quite often get treated differently than my colleagues, even though I hold a British passport." (See the top 10 underreported stories...