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...think of Dine Originals as one big chain--taken together, the 700 restaurants pull in about $1.4 billion in annual sales and represent $450 million in purchasing power--so its members get the clout and volume prices previously reserved for the big boys. Last month Luria signed a contract with Avendra, the top U.S. group-purchasing company in the restaurant-and-hotel sector, to get members lower prices on food and supply contracts as well as consulting advice on how to run their businesses more efficiently. The help may not reverse the chain-restaurant juggernaut, but it gives small restaurants...
...eight-line clause are not enough to instill students with a sense of academic accountability. Making the honor code omnipresent, by having students sign it upon the completion of every exam or posting the honor code in every lecture hall, would be a constant reminder of the academic contract. This is not for the purpose of being didactic, but in order to integrate the code into routine academic life.Crucially, in conjunction with an academic honor code, Harvard should create a general standard of conduct similar to the Fundamental Standard at Stanford. Stanford’s standard reads...
...time on many campuses. While that is a disturbing trend, my attention was caught by the fact that the book publisher would offer such a high amount for only two books. I find it terribly disturbing that a 17-year-old college student can receive a $500,000 contract, and plagiarize so boldly. Meanwhile, as a hard-working student, I have put myself through school as an original writer, photographer, and web designer. Trying to get through college on a meager wage, I have had to take time away from doing the work that I love to work late nights...
...publisher said yesterday in a statement.“Little, Brown and Company will not be publishing a revised edition of ‘How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life’ by Kaavya Viswanathan, nor will we publish the second book under contract,” said Little, Brown’s publisher Michael Pietsch ’78. Viswanathan admitted last week that she borrowed language from two of Megan F. McCafferty’s novels but that any similarities were “unintentional and unconscious.” The Crimson reported...
Kaavya Viswanathan’s publisher said that the Harvard sophomore’s recently-released novel—which has been dogged by plagiarism allegations—will not be re-released, and that Viswanathan’s two-book contract has been cancelled. In a statement released today, the publisher of Little, Brown, and Company, Michael Pietsch ’78, said: "Little, Brown and Company will not be publishing a revised edition of `How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life' by Kaavya Viswanathan, nor will we publish the second book under contract...