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...another round of panic selling, Saks and other retailers have ordered up to 20% less inventory for this holiday season. "You clearly aren't going to see the kind of discounting that you saw last year," says Sadove, although he doesn't rule out 70%-off sales being held at the end of the season if there's inventory left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailers Gear up for Black Friday | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

Businessman Stephen Pagliuca and social activist Alan Khazei ’83 battled it out yesterday in a debate held in Austin Hall at the Harvard Law School. Both men are running in the Democratic primary on December 8 to fill the seat of former Mass. Senator Edward M. Kennedy...

Author: By Jimmy Wu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alums Battle to Fill Kennedy Senate Seat | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...version also incorrectly referred to the Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) as UAME on one occasion, and said that the organization's rally on Thursday would be held in front of the Science Center. In fact, it will be held in the Yard...

Author: By Linda Zhang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Pledges To Make Medical Technology Accessible | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...Dream, a student organization that advocates for the legal rights of undocumented student immigrants, held its inaugural event of the year on Tuesday night with a film screening of the Emmy-award winning documentary, “Made...

Author: By Sophie O. Duvernoy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Documentary Urges Immigrant Rights | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...having citizens complain to your superiors is not good for the careers of Chinese officials. Local and regional governments arrange teams of "retrievers" who round up petitioners before they can put their complaints before higher authorities. The petitioners are held in black jails - which could be anything from a hotel to an empty school - for weeks or even months before being sent home. Human Rights Watch interviewed 38 former black-jail detainees who described beatings, sleep deprivation and lack of food and medical care. A black-jail guard went on trial in Beijing this month for allegedly raping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Report Released on China's 'Black Jails' | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

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