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Progress in fighting discrimination, as well as the provision of health insurance to dozens of Cambridge residents, are at stake in the current battle over a Cambridge ordinance that grants gay and lesbian partners the same treatment and public health benefits as spouses...
...Through its efforts the Living Wage Campaign has initiated a critical process of reassessing the way Harvard's decisions are made, especially when community-wide values are at stake. Such a process, built on the foundation of a living wage policy, is Harvard's best hope of avoiding the empty ostentation, ridiculous disparity and for-profit corporate mentality that threatens to consume the other purposes to which it is charged, like the advancement of the democratic ideal and the construction of a moral community. It is to these later objectives that the Living Wage Campaign commits itself this afternoon...
...There's a lot a stake apart from pride. Celera and its investors are looking to make a mint from the project(and were rewarded Thursday with a 25 percent jump in the company's stock price); the public scientists, meanwhile, are anxious to preserve their funding. And that might explain in part why the members of the Human Genome Project, which is funded by National Institutes of Health, are warning that exuberance over the most recent announcement may be misplaced. The federal scientists have long taken issue with Celera's techniques, saying that the public project is taking...
...said outside observers, who do not have a stake in the WRC, would interfere in the organizing process...
...rationale behind the ruling was not that nude dancing itself is an unworthy form of expression--the court has consistently found this kind of activity under the protective umbrella of the First Amendment--but that the state has a legitimate stake in limiting so-called "negative secondary effects." Nude dancing at adult establishments, the city reasoned, leads to increased rates of crime and prostitution and decreases in surrounding property values. Accepting this line of reasoning, the court upheld the ordinance...