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Another way to avoid U.S. controls is called "drop shipping," say Customs Service agents. An American company barred from exporting stun guns directly to a foreign country pays a producer in a third country with loose export controls to ship the foreign weapons with an American label slapped on them. The U.S. company then bills the customer at a marked-up price and pockets the profit. Customs agents also suspect that many distributors simply file phony export-declaration forms and ship directly to problem countries. Last December, Yuri I. Montgomery, an Olympia, Wash., exporter, was indicted on charges of sending...
Harvard plays Ivy League rival Cornell Saturday at 1 p.m. at Ohiri field. The Big Red is sitting atop the Ivy League standings with wins over Penn and Yale. In order to secure an NCAA berth, the Crimson cannot afford to drop winnable games, which makes this a very significant midseason test...
Damrosch said his department is "absolutely" losing out with next year's departures, calling the three professors "wonderful people. He said the "diminished number" of junior faculty teaching next year may translate to fewer course offerings, but he added the drop in the number of courses offered would not be enough to be "disastrous." Masten said the Harvard English department is facing trouble...
Cheuse said she does not plan to drop the issuebecause it affects many students at Harvard, butshe said she is uncertain about her next step...
...ends Sept. 30, rising to perhaps $140 billion in fiscal 2008. Reischauer cautions, however, that the projections assume that the White House and Congress can clamp a tight lid on nonmilitary spending. In recent years, continued rises in civilian outlays have been offset by plummeting defense expenditures, but that drop has left little more...