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Chanting and carrying signs reading "Stone is a Stain on Harvard," demonstrators gathered outside Mass Hall yesterday to protest the involvement of Corporation member Robert G. Stone '45 in "economic violence" against striking Appalachian coal miners...
Fairness also has little to do with the system of guandao, or official profiteering, that permeates Chinese society. On a small scale, leaders at all levels routinely use their positions to obtain free restaurant meals or theater tickets. In a grander manner, officials buy scarce raw materials such as coal and timber at low, subsidized prices and sell them on the open market for handsome profits...
...carpenter to the stars. He's had lean dreams too. "George and Steven may be living out their childhood fantasies on film," he says, "but I didn't come from the same crate of oranges." Indeed not. "My first childhood ambition was to be the guy who carried the coal from our house to the coal chute in a wheelbarrow. I remember there was this big pile of coal, and then he did his job, and then there was no coal. I liked the rhythm of his work. It was a job you could see getting done. My dad would...
...pipelines, including one that cuts through Panama, have stolen much of the oil trade, and air freight and sea-to-rail transport compete for canal business, particularly consumer goods that are moved in containers. Still, the canal remains competitive in the movement of bulk cargoes, such as wheat and coal. Last year traffic through the canal reached almost 156.5 million tons of cargo, the second highest load in canal history. The U.S., the canal's largest user, sends 13.7% of its international seabound trade through the canal. Japan, the second largest user, relies heavily on the canal for food imports...
West Virginia's spectacular landscape belies the conditions facing its inhabitants: dying coal towns and widespread rural poverty and illiteracy. When a coal-company manager was hustled off to prison last month in Huntington for his role in a vote-buying scheme, it seemed simply more of the same: a handful of predators picking over the ruins of a once booming coal economy, and a stagnant, wasteful government...