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...David J. Sher and Joyce F. Liu '98, both first-year medical students, wrote the letter and collected the signatures. Sher said the petition was motivated by the recent campus-wide surge in anti-sweatshop activism...
...points in the petition were similar to a letter sent to President Neil L. Rudenstine by members of the Progressive Students Labor Movement (PSLM) lastweek, Sher said...
Says You!, originating from WGBH Boston and heard on 65 public-radio stations, restores some intellectual equilibrium to the airwaves. Created and hosted by Richard Sher, it offers cunning posers to two teams of players: the sports origin of such phrases as "play for keeps" (marbles) and "to get a rise out of" (fishing); words derived from the Latin for "above the eyebrow" (supercilious) and "before and after" (preposterous); definitions of recent coinages like adhocracy and nouvelle cuisine (which Kahn defined as "a fashionable way to starve in polite company...
...session informality of the players' banter. Most of them are wizards of the Boston media, and they enjoy one another's wit almost as much as they enjoy cutting in with a bon mot of their own. It's an invigorating workout just to keep up with them, and Sher presides with the indulgence of a genial night watchman in the Mensa wing at Bedlam...
...marbled murrelet. The company is also required to set aside an additional 11,000 acres in no-cut buffers next to streams critical to the survival of the endangered coho salmon. It is unfortunate that you characterized what we achieved as saving a few "scraps" of wildlife habitat. BYRON SHER, State Senator Co-Chair, Joint Committee on Headwaters Forest California Legislature Sacramento, Calif...