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This group is absolutely appalled that the U.S., having infuriated the North with a targeted, highly effective sanction - the freezing of $25 million in funds in Macau, most of which came from illegal businesses like counterfeiting - simply said "never mind" when it became clear the dust-up would ruin the nuclear deal. Kim, in this view, is a hard guy to get any leverage over, simply because he doesn't think like a normal head of state: everything is a zero sum game to him - you win or I win. The U.S. Treasury's action freezing the funds squeezed...
...goods. According to investigators, the companies employ children as young as 12 in double shifts and at low wages; the firms dock laborers a full day's pay for spending more than 15 minutes in the toilet; they also provide no gear to protect their employees against paint vapors, dust and cotton fibers in plants. The findings on the four Olympic licensees revealed an "appalling disregard for their workers health and for local labor laws," the report said...
...nose at an issue that should dominate attention. The Faculty meeting in which the Task Force’s report was to be discussed was one of the most poorly attended of the year. We hope that Faust and Smith do not allow the report to gather dust on a shelf and instead make it a guiding document for their tenures.The two should also take a page from former FAS Dean William C. Kirby and former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ playbook in making the improvement of student life at Harvard College a priority. The FAS dean...
...economy even as he advised the government on economic reform. The conflict of interest would lead to a federal lawsuit against Shleifer, one of his associates, and Harvard, resulting in a $26 million fine against the University and $2 million penalties apiece for Shleifer and the associate. When the dust settled, the University stripped Shleifer of his endowed chair—but not tenure—and the furor contributed to the ouster of Summers from the Harvard presidency...
...Like his fellow Arizona border land managers, DiRosa said he is practicing "triage - trying to figure out what to sacrifice to save the whole." Of the 1,200 miles of illegal roads and footpaths, some 450 miles are entrenched, the denuded desert pounded out to "moon dust." Some tracks are 100 yards wide and, even if abandoned, will take several generations to return to wilderness. When it rains, they turn into vast dry creek beds, distorting the rainfall patterns. Beyond the roads are staging areas so polluted with human waste and garbage that DiRosa must bring in commercial cleanup crews...