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...night before the senate meeting, Schnebel tossed and turned, worrying about the speech she would give and a few threatening phone calls she had received. On the big day, supporters set up a table in the commons to collect last-minute signatures. Opponents such as Andrew Dudik, 22, the elected student member of the board of visitors, showed up too. "I don't believe the school should be in the business of providing something so controversial, because some see it as an abortion method," he says...
...thank the Saudis for their cooperation and keep up the momentum. A U.S./Saudi task force has already conducted more than 400 joint interviews, end-running laws that forbid foreign investigators from questioning Saudi citizens, and FBI evidence recovery technicians are working closely with their Saudi counterparts to collect explosive residue and other forensic clues in the Riyadh wreckage...
...several years later and, more recently, has got about $30 million from Leonard Riggio, chairman of Barnes & Noble. The foundation goes in for converted industrial buildings with good bones but no high-design drama. (The Nabisco factory was art-readied by little-known OpenOffice architects.) And while most museums collect a few works by each of a long roster of artists, Dia prefers to support a small list of favored names...
Blacklisting violates Salvadoran and international law. It also violates the codes of conduct for apparel production of universities like Harvard. Those codes require that factories not discriminate in employment and that management respect the right to unionize and bargain collectively. Collegiate code compliance is typically monitored by the WRC or the Fair Labor Association (FLA), the latter of which Harvard is a member. When a factory is in violation of the code and the monitor investigates, schools and brands can sometimes pressure the factory to improve—a strategy that has been successful in the past. In this case...
...more than a half-century, American foreign policy dealing with oil has typically been manipulative and misguided, often both at the same time. The pattern of intrigue has ranged from U.S. officials' secretly writing tax laws in the 1950s (so the Saudi royal family could collect more money from the sale of its oil and American companies could write off the added payments on their tax returns) to overthrowing a government that showed too much independence in handling its oil sales. To illustrate the dark side of American oil policy, we offer two tales, stitched together from declassified government documents...