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...year-old Ishii, who spent 10 seasons with the Yakult Swallows before signing a four-year, $12.8 million contract with L.A. in February, is the latest in a line of foreign-born Dodgers pitchers whose talent has lost nothing in the translation. He follows in the footsteps of compatriot Hideo Nomo, the Japanese righthander who was the National League Rookie of the Year in 1995; Korean righthander Chan Ho Park, who won 75 games over the past five seasons; and Mexican lefthander Fernando Valenzuela, who as a 20-year-old in '81 won the league's rookie and Cy Young...
Since New York University (NYU) became the only private university in the nation to have negotiated a contract with a teaching or research assistant union earlier this year, university administrators at schools like Tufts and Columbia have fought teaching fellow unionization by their own students...
Unionization efforts at NYU, which began in 1998, only culminated in January in the signed contract with teaching and research assistants, which raises yearly salaries from $11,000 to $15,000 and commits the university to providing affordable health care...
Though the contract fell just short of the $11.30 hourly wage that the union had called for at a rally last Monday, Levy said one of its major selling points was that all guards would immediately receive more money...
...agreement will go into effect without a ratification vote by HUSPMGU members because only wages, and not an entirely new contract, were negotiated, Levy said...