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In order to increase its leverage over Northwest Airlines mechanics, management is decreasing the margin of safety for its passengers. If Northwest Airlines executives are as willing to sacrifice their past and present compensation packages the way they are demanding round after round of sacrifices by their mechanics, then any settlement would be infused with…
While George W. Bush keeps saying that the United States is at war, for most of the United States, apart from the soldiers and military families, the people seem detached from the daily devastation in Iraq. Reporters and anti-war activists have made this observation repeatedly over the past months. To be sure, the polls are…
Law Reviews should have a “letters to the editors” section, as many professional journals in the social sciences and physical sciences do. Presently, there is no way readers can comment on or rebut any of the contents of law reviews other than to persuade the editors to print an article or note or book review…
Babies are dying of starvation in Niger—a large country in dry Africa with 12 million people. Their emaciated mothers and fathers are eating rats except lately the rats themselves are starving. A massive attack of locusts in the midst of a prolonged drought led to a harvest failure and the spreading fatal famine. The government,…
Dear Ms. Sheehan, From your grief over the loss of your son, Casey, in Iraq has come the courage to spotlight nationally the cowardly character trait of a President who refuses to meet with anyone or any group critical of his illegal, fabricated, deceptive war and occupation of that ravaged country. As a messianic…
Mr. Masaharu IkutaJapan Post1-3-2 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-kuTokyo 100-8798Japan Dear Mr. Masaharu Ikuta: For many years I have been aware of the high level of mail and financial services provided by the Japanese post office. Mail service is accurate and efficient, and post offices are located in even the smallest towns. It should be remembered that Japan’s…
   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAUGUST 8, 2005 FOR MORE INFORMATION,CONTACT RALPH NADER AT 202-387-8034 “No one was able to negotiate so skillfully the shoals of the 30 minute television evening news format than the consummate newsman, Peter Jennings. Constrained, as all network anchors are, by minutes taken for advertisements, minutes taken for formulaic segments and the…
Remember the day after the election last November, a triumphant newly elected (for the first time) President George W. Bush introduced to a national television audience a beaming Karl Rove as “The Architect” of his winning campaign. Did you know that you, the taxpayers, paid for his salary and benefits while he was running George…
Dear President Bush: On June 28, 2005 you addressed the nation in prime time about the situation in Iraq. You called the casualties, destruction and suffering in that country “horrifying and real.” Then you declared: “I know Americans ask the question: Is the sacrifice worth it? It is worth it,” you asserted and went on…
Rose Ann DeMoro is the Executive Director of the California Nurses Association (CNA) — the country’s fastest growing union. Since 1992, union membership has grown from 13,000 to the present 63,000. And it was since 1992 that the nurses became more prominent in participating in and running their own unions. No coincidence. Whether it is…