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...TIME has learned that both Helms and Biden cited reports that Wintershall, an oil subsidiary of the giant German chemical conglomerate BASF, is currently in talks with the Libyan government about properties of the Oasis Partners, a U.S. consortium involving Marathon, Conoco and Amerada Hess. The holdings, which could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars, have not been operated by the Americans since 1986, when President Ronald Reagan imposed an executive order banning U.S. firms from doing business in the country...
...Lowell, Class of 1877, who hoped to maintain the Brahmin finishing school by creating maximum quotas for undesirables like Jews. University President-to-be Lawrence H. Summers is coming from the Treasury and University President-soon-that-was Neil L. Rudenstine is going to work for an online art consortium; these facts are only strange outside of the context of the revolving door between Washington and Harvard in the 1940s, when President James B. Conant got Secretary of State George C. Marshall to deliver his plan for Europe as the commencement address, and without knowledge of the spending being placed...
What happens if the writers strike? The current contract between the W.G.A. (made up of 11,000 movie and TV scribes) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (a consortium of major studios with a negotiating team that includes Disney's Robert Iger and DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg), expires May 1. During a strike, cameras could keep rolling on completed movie scripts. TV too would be fine--for now. The rest of this season's comedies and dramas have been shot, while news and reality shows would be exempt. But even though networks have stockpiled some shows, be prepared...
...also support a commitment to the Workers’ Rights Consortium (WRC) to monitor the status of Harvard’s direct and subcontracted employees abroad. Harvard must shoulder the responsibility to monitor workplace standards for those outside U.S. borders who work on its behalf. We feel that the monitoring organization with which Harvard is currently affiliated, the Fair Labor Association, does not sufficiently protect these workers...
PSLM members said their protest-strategically located in the building housing the office of University President Neil L. Rudenstine-also demands that the University join the Worker's Rights Consortium, an independent factory monitoring board...