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...best we could hope for here.” Usmani added that he believes getting HUDS to suspend the other contracts midway is not “feasible at all.” HUDS maintained its refusal to release detailed monetary information about the contacts. “Releasing dollar amounts attached to contracts compromises the competitive bidding process,” Snyder wrote in an e-mail. Snyder said, however, that despite its exclusive contract with Coke HUDS has significantly less business with the company than Michigan, which services 25,000 undergraduates and 19,000 graduate students, HUDS also...
...Once again, Gretzky responded to questions about his possible link to a gambling ring allegedly financed by his assistant coach with the Phoenix Coyotes, Rick Tocchet. New Jersey authorities have accused Tocchet, a New Jersey state trooper and another New Jersey man with running the multimillion-dollar operation. Gretzky's wife Janet is reported to have waggered more than $100,000 on football games through the ring. Gretzky indicated that he did not know about Janet's alleged sports gambling. "I've said what I said a week ago ? I'm not involved, and quite frankly, it's the last...
...February, Yahoo and AOL announced—ostensibly to protect their users from spam—that they would start offering an inexpensive (half a cent or so per message) exemption from spam filtering. The idea is that individual senders like you or me would happily pay the dollar per week that sending mail would cost us, while the purveyors of Cialis would have to think twice before spending the hundreds of thousands their present activities would cost. But both companies readily agree they’d be forced to deliver even the mail of those that don?...
...world, the same number of people starves in Tanzania. To carry fresh fish, mammoth Russian carrier planes depart from Mwanza Airport in Tanzania and arrive a few days later eager for more. The marvel of foreign currency creates a market for security guards, who risk their lives for a dollar a night, and for local prostitutes, who cater to the lonely plane pilots. After months of bonding between Sauper’s team of two and this eclectic variety of workers, the filmmakers obtained honest confessions that illustrate the collateral damage of poorly regulated international trade. A recurrent question adds...
With a couple extra dollar bills in their pocket and love in the air, more than 850 students came to Friday’s Pub Night in Loker Commons, hoping to buy both a date and a beer. Friday’s pub night was preceded by a date auction hosted by the Harvard Cancer Society (HCS). Apart from enjoying the entertainment and company, the attendees also enjoyed Pinocchio’s pizza, beer, wine, and other beverages at cost, but partook of pretzels and other small crunchy snacks for free while enjoying the music of Orange Crush.Many students were...