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...basic legal issue is straightforward and simple. Does the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures trump the all but unanimous community desire to test its children for drugs? The American Civil Liberties Union, representing Tannahill and his son, will soon test the question of how far the government can go in overriding traditional constitutional restraints in its quest for a "drug-free America...
Last Wednesday's labor recommendations proposed by the Harvard Ad-Hoc Committee on Employment Policies and President Neil L. Rudenstine's subsequent announcement committing the University to those recommendations are reassuring signs that Harvard does, at some basic level, care about the welfare of its workers. But in that these labor policies, which focus almost exclusively on health and job training benefits, bracket the central issue of wages, the University's response is far from adequate...
When enacted, the committee's recommendations will extend basic health insurance to nearly all of Harvard's non-casual workforce, including those subcontracted by outside firms, and expand programs in job and educational training. Specifically, Harvard employees who work 16 or more hours a week will be eligible for health benefits; previously, such benefits were reserved only for employees who worked at least 20 hours a week. The University will also refuse to contract with firms that do not provide health insurance for their employees. Furthermore, employees will have more access to job training and educational development programs, such...
...left the school impressed but glad I didn't have to go every day. Even a school run by one of the most liked and dedicated principals in the country can't overcome the basic problem with public education: it takes place in a government institution. Imagine spending 13 years at a DMV studying for the written test. Now imagine doing it as a virgin. No principal can make that...
...website for the author and sells copies, posters and videos as well as other books with contradictory cataclysmic predictions for the millennium. It also sells Y2K-era survivalist equipment--food, water, medical equipment, underground shelter kits--all the while telling readers how to survive the catastrophes by ordering "Basic Preparedness," which is $16.95 plus $2.95 shipping and handling...