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...Republican side, neither McCain nor Giuliani have hired youth vote coordinators, though Giuiliani does employ the same Republican pollster that Smith's team has used. A spokesman for McCain emphasized the campaign's presence on Facebook and MySpace. Mitt Romney's campaign has not met with Smith, says a campaign spokesman, because he already learned how to do successful youth vote outreach as Massachusetts . Recently Romney announced a "Students for Mitt" program in which college students receive a 10% commission for every $1,000 they raise for the campaign...
...Consumers often don't realize that products like diapers, shampoo, paint and crayons rely on corn. Crayons, for instance, use corn-based adhesives, while shampoos use dextrose. Because these products employ numerous ingredients, rising corn costs may have limited impact, assuming manufacturers can find adequate substitutes or can minimize their corn usage...
...latest protests are aimed at working conditions in the factories that make Olympics-related merchandise. Last Sunday, an international group of trade unions issued a report on Chinese sweatshops, citing four factories that have licenses to produce official Olympic 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...
...those efforts is one of many administrative challenges Darnton will face as he navigates the complicated waters of Harvard’s library structure.A ‘DIPLOMATIC JOB’Having a senior professor serve as chief librarian is a Harvard peculiarity, as many institutions, including Princeton, employ a professional librarian instead to oversee their collections.At Harvard, the position Darnton will take over July 1 carries with it significant prestige but not an automatic mandate. The director of the University Library is only the first among equals in a relatively decentralized library system, and Darnton will have to work...
...Harvard subconsciously racist?” Without a doubt, most Harvard students, if asked, would firmly deny that they are racist or that they employ racial profiling in their everyday lives. Yet this difficult and loaded question has emerged from the woodwork and has been asked, debated over e-mail, and discussed over dinner ever since Saturday. We write, of course, of the incident in which several Quad residents called the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) to check whether students playing on the Quad were in fact Harvard students and permitted to be there. It turned out that they were...