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These companies have taken advantage of the loose regulations in all of these countries, the East Asian ones in particular, to convince people that they should smoke. They have aggressively targeted young people and women with advertising that makes smoking appear glamorous, without providing any of the warnings that convinced so many Americans and Europeans not to smoke...
Graham, who is asking voters to place stickers with her name or write in her name on their election day ballots, is sponsoring meetings with student voters and enlisting student volunteers. Graham's name will not appear on the printed ballot because she lost her party's nomination race...
Consider Harvard's failure to divest from South African-related stocks. The moral significance of this new divestment could only pale in comparison. This new idea is simply the latest in a string of ways Harvard has attempted to appear socially conscious while abdicating its ultimate responsibility to act in the most ethical way possible in every arena...
Offering one-year fellowships to Black South Africans is nothing but an attempt to quiet pro-divestment complaints and make Harvard appear a bastion of altruism...
...ritual of Haitian politics, what was happening was a dechoukage, a "rooting out" of Duvalierists. The military and civilian mutinies appear to have been provoked by the barbarism of an attack on worshipers at a Port- au-Prince church, St. Jean Bosco, three Sundays ago. The attack, which left 13 dead and 77 injured, was staged by the Tonton Macoutes, the vicious thugs who terrorized Haiti under the Duvaliers. Under Lieut. General Henri Namphy, leader of the just ousted regime, and particularly Port-au-Prince mayor Franck Romain, the Macoutes have enjoyed a comeback...