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These exceptional examples of political grandstanding, however, point to an unfortunate trend among some Harvard students: those who exploit their precious few college years preparing for public office or campaigning for delusional progressive causes...
...Last month State Department officials lodged a futile protest after Austrian energy company OMV announced an $18 billion deal to exploit Iran's South Pars gas field. "The Americans may refuse to invest in Iran's oil industry," Austria's Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik told the Austrian Die Presse newspaper. "But Austria is not bound...
...Chinese Olympic football team in London in February, the club sponsors the Asian Football Confederation's Vision Asia project to develop grassroots leagues across China. Next summer, Chelsea will embark on its first-ever tour of China. Those preseason tours can be pure gold, giving sponsors the chance to exploit target markets. When Manchester United goes to Malaysia, Korea, Japan and China this summer, shirt sponsor AIG will be with the team every minute. That will go some way to repaying the $28 million a year the U.S. insurance behemoth agreed to pay to slap its logo on the club...
...labor for seven years. In 1619 the White Lion, a privateer, brought a new labor source--"20 and odd negroes" from Angola. Our original sin was not very original--Spain and Portugal had already brought 200,000 African slaves to the Americas--and the colony was slow to exploit the practice. Slaves did not outnumber indentured servants in Virginia until the 1670s. Once acquired, however, the habit of bondage would prove addicting--economic and social nicotine...
...forget Michelle Wie, that stylish, 6-ft. Hawaiian palm, currently sidelined with a wrist injury, whose $20 million endorsement contracts rival those of tennis queen Maria Sharapova, even though she's spent more time trying to qualify (unsuccessfully) for men's tourneys. "These women aren't afraid to exploit their sexuality a little bit," says Rob McNamara, golf professional at Farmington Country Club in Charlottesville, Va. "But these pinup girls can play championship-level golf, and that...