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...donated $3.7 million to the 56 members of the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees, more than triple the amount contributed by PACs in 1983, the last congressional nonelection year. "We are seeing a classic example of how PACs operate," Wertheimer says. "It is a bald and blatant effort to buy political advantage." NEW YORK/NEW JERSEY A Borderline Case...
...decades, the mostly poor and illiterate people of Haiti (pop. 6 million) have accepted their fate at the hands of corrupt dictators. But in recent months a combination of blatant economic mismanagement, lavish corruption surrounding President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier and brutal repression of those who protest his regime has brought increasing numbers of Haitians to a stark conclusion: enough is enough...
...paid by foreign companies to mass-produce the latter's ideas and designs?much of it is illicit. The nation has deployed its prodigious replication skills to flood world markets with pirated goods and fakes, from designer clothing to consumer electronics. China's trading partners tell themselves that this blatant disregard for the intellectual property of others is natural for a former command economy at an early stage of free-market development. The problem, they say, will ease over time as legal institutions and Chinese entrepreneurs mature and the country begins to attach the same importance to property rights...
It’s all in a days work for Calixto, whose job is to correct such blatant misuses of the Harvard trademark—first by approaching those directly involved and, if unsuccessful, through more severe legal measures...
...thus imagine my surprise when I arrived at Harvard four years ago to find blatant and, indeed, University-endorsed segregation and discrimination running amok. I’m not talking about anything as sinister as Students for the Klan or even the single-sex social clubs. I am referring, of course, to many of the various ethnic organizations on campus...