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...Global Compact is now the largest initiative of its type, Ruggie said, with a membership of over 4000 companies around the world. However, Ruggie said he’s ready for a respite from policy work. “I have been doing a lot of work on the ground. I want to sit back and reflect on it and do a book,” Ruggie said. Jane A. Nelson—director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at the Kennedy School and a former UN co-worker of Ruggie—said that Ruggie?...
...wizard Quidditch—for the most part. The game includes equipment such as broomsticks, golden goal hoops, Quaffles, Bludgers, and a Snitch (in lay terms, balls). But without bewitched broomsticks and bewinged Snitches, the game has a few differences. Muggle (non-magic) players keep their feet on the ground, holding a broom between their legs, and play in confined areas such as soccer fields. A live person runs on and off the field to play the role of the Snitch, the evasive flying ball whose capture ends the game. Though Harvard lacks a Quidditch team, it isn?...
...efficiency in the interim. “I absolutely want to get to the bottom of whatever it is too,” Smith said. “But I think we have to be very careful to not allow the business of the FAS...to be ground to a halt because of whatever it is that makes people not come.” Because yesterday’s meeting did not reach the necessary threshold for attendance, the proposal will come to an official vote at the Faculty’s next meeting. But only if they reach quorum...
...Today Obama is partly a product of what his mother was not. Whereas she swept her children off to unfamiliar lands and even lived apart from her son when he was a teenager, Obama has tried to ground his children in the Midwest. "We've created stability for our kids in a way that my mom didn't do for us," he says. "My choosing to put down roots in Chicago and marry a woman who is very rooted in one place probably indicates a desire for stability that maybe I was missing...
...businesses, schools and government activities have ground to a halt, reminiscent of bloody protests that have plagued this country for the last several decades - most recently in 2004, when former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown. President Rene Preval, respected for his probity but criticized for his lack of leadership and statesmanship, has been trying to improve Haiti's squalid conditions since taking office in 2006, but demonstrators squeezed by spiraling food costs say they're tired of waiting for a solution to their constant hunger. "We used to be hungry enough to drink Clorox," a local mechanic told TIME...