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...opportunity. Five nations - Bangladesh, China, India, Pakistan and Turkey - account for 90% of the world's shipbreaking industry. But increasingly, countries that break up ships are learning that they pay a price: workers' safety standards in the yards are notoriously low, and some countries object to being a dumping ground for richer countries' toxic waste. The legal framework around shipbreaking, like much in the maritime business, is murky. In 2004, the signatories of the 1989 Basel Convention, which regulates the transport of hazardous waste, agreed that a ship bound for demolition could be considered as such material, and hence...
...journalist who broke ground as The New York Times’ first public editor, Daniel Okrent, will spend next semester at Harvard as one of five spring fellows at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government...
...state police departments to issue daily logs, was enacted thanks to the hard work of The Crimson. Hence we are following in historical footsteps by continuing the fight in the legislative arena for open access to police records. The Court ruled in favor of HUPD this morning on the ground that Harvard is a "private educational institution," and that, although HUPD has the power to arrest and carries out public functions on behalf of the state, it is not an "agency" subject to the public record laws. To provide some background on the case, in June 2003, The Crimson, citing...
Harvard filed a motion to dismiss the Crimson's complaint pursuant to Mass. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6), 365 Mass. 754 (1974), on the ground that, as a private educational institution, Harvard was not one of the instrumentalities of State or local government whose records were "public" within the meaning of G.L. c. 4, § 7, Twenty-sixth. A judge in the Superior Court agreed and granted Harvard's motion to dismiss, concluding that the mere fact that HUPD officers were authorized to perform certain functions by State and local police departments did not make them officers or employees...
...someone dragging a desk around? Was the room above me playing Dance Dance Revolution? Had the boiler exploded? I threw open my curtains to reveal the source of my discomfort—a 25-foot-long metal piston that was being dropped again and again to the ground, smashing and stirring up dirt as part of the ongoing Grant/Cowperthwaite construction project. What the Harvard construction website euphemistically describes as “ongoing digging and concrete operations” was creating a noise loud enough to wake the dead. The relentless pounding was giving me a headache, and could apparently...