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...SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO, Helen Miller struck another unlikely blow for organized labor last summer. Miller, a member of the service-employees union who spends seven hours a day tending to a tube-fed stroke victim, fought for and won a change in Illinois law that raised the hourly wages for state-paid, home-health-care aides from $3.35 to $5. As the head of volunteer action for the union local, Miller was the first nurse's aide to testify on behalf of the bill. Now she spends her free time organizing home-health-care workers to demand medical benefits...
With that single stroke, Gates captured one of the world's great collections of documentary images: more than 16 million drawings, artworks, news photographs and other illustrations, including such familiar and haunting treasures as Mathew Brady's Civil War pictures and the photos of Rosa Parks' lonely bus ride. The deal immediately raised questions about whether Gates, who has near monopoly control of the PC software industry and is moving aggressively into computer networking, is planning to extend his dominion into graphic images as well...
...only his second tournament, sophomore Alex Gonzalez played consistently well for the Crimson, finishing with 79 strokes on both days to come to a 158 total, one stroke behind Radtke for the top Harvard place...
...With a stroke of inspiration by BayBank, the Head of the Charles Regatta, the largest rowing event in the world, is pulling its way into cyberspace...
...stroke of 5 p.m. on Thursday, December 28, the doors of the Harvard Square branch of USTrust, the popular bank that occupies the triangular corner at One JFK St., will close forever...