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...Research thrives on openness and suffers in isolation,” he explained in his address, urging the government to take a “hands-off” approach to development, harnessing research both from universities and private industry—in effect, to shift the onus of innovation and responsibility as much as possible into the hands of research experts themselves...
...Against Discrimination (MCAD) on April 4, Marlene Soprani accuses ACME/Pioneer Janitorial Services manager Carlos Da Silva of telling her that a job she applied for was “more for a man.” Da Silva then publicly humiliated her in connection with her interest in the shift, Soprani alleges. She was fired a few weeks later...
Soprani—who spoke to the crowd in Spanish through a translator—said she originally worked a day shift when she started at Harvard about two years ago. But ACME/Pioneer’s management forced her to take a night shift last September to keep her job, she said...
Soprani said that while she was still employed on the night shift, she applied for a day-shift opening in Lamont Library. She said that is when her boss, Da Silva, told her that the position was “more a man’s job,” saying it required heavy lifting...
...standard practice would have been to give Soprani the job because of her seniority, according to Bartley. He added that this was especially true because she had originally held a more-desirable day shift before being forced to take a night shift...