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Despite the efforts of the Living Wage Campaign at Harvard, formed in January as an outgrowth of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), University officials have yet to reach a compromise with student activists or the council. PSLM members said the city's latest move should prompt Harvard to follow suit...
...little more than a month ago, the council adopted an order urging Harvard to comply voluntarily to provide its employees with a living wage of at least $10 per hour. Despite the efforts of the Living Wage Campaign at Harvard, formed in January as an outgrowth of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), University officials have yet to reach a compromise with student activists or the council. PSLM members said the city's latest move should prompt Harvard to follow suit...
...This is an outgrowth of the information age," says TIME writer Adam Cohen, "and in our society it is the price of the First Amendment right of free speech." It is a price that the courts may be increasingly asked to reevaluate, however. "When speech actively advocates violence," says Cohen, "there can be a finding of liability," as an Oregon federal jury determined earlier this month in the case of an antiabortion site called the Nuremberg Files. The proliferation of hate groups suggests that the nation may face a growing docket of such hate litigation -- and a new round...
...says he can't identify some of his users, because they sign up anonymously through the company's Web page and then pay with cash-stuffed envelopes. This, as you can imagine, could be a police officer's nightmare--untraceable stalkers, extorters, blackmailers, etc.; it's also a logical outgrowth of free speech. Besides, notes Cottrell, "95% of our customers actually pay with credit cards...
...past, "the council came to be energized by progressive politics. Our term didn't have that same energy," Stewart says. "Some people felt that we needed a more cohesive statement, and the community message might have been an outgrowth of that...