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...payout) really happens—my favorite study was an Appprentice-esque brainstorming session, where for $20, I spent an hour with three other people trying to think up an advertising campaign for an imaginary brand of flavored water. Another time I received $23 for negotiating a contract with another student...
...academic year. Once the academic year began, however, The Hahvahd Tour had to take another hiatus while awaiting approval from the Student Business Advisory Committee (SBAC). Last Friday, the Hahvahd honchos were told by Dean Judith H. Kidd that they could forge on, but under certain stipulations. Their contract prohibits them from using “Hahvahd,” in their name, but permits them to use Harvard—contrary to the agreements reached this summer. On June 29, the President and Fellows of Harvard College filed a trademark application for the word...
...allegedly invested in Russian stocks and securities. That wouldn’t seem so bad if Shleifer hadn’t been privy to a variety of internal financial changes in Russia, which made any personal investments in the Russian economy a violation of Harvard’s USAID contract. In light of these allegations, USAID withdrew their contract in 1997, and Shleifer was sent home...
...unsafe—the vaccine cannot infect a person with HPV, and side-effects are minor—but rather because of fear that giving the vaccine to all girls will lead to an increase in sexual activity. Such an argument not only ignores the fact that women can contract HPV through non-consensual sex, but also reflects a dangerously naïve mindset. The idea that young people can, and should, be scared into abstinence is simply false and leads uninformed teens to engage in unsafe sexual behavior. Rather, teens should be educated on the practices of safe...
...Security Council, and ambassador to Moscow - and two associates were murdered by a group of officers belonging to the National Security Committee (knb), heir to the Soviet-era kgb. Late last month, a court found Yerzhan Utembayev, the former Senate chief of staff, guilty of putting out the contract on Sarsenbayev "for reasons of personal enmity," and sentenced him to 20 years. Nine others received sentences ranging from three years to life for complicity in the murder. Hoping to slowly add more democratic elements to a system that now rejects them, analyst Asylbek Bisenbayev suggests holding transparent elections...