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...Student Community Center Capital Campaign to the separate, non-profit Student Community Center Foundation, which will eventually manage the operations of the student center rather than the College administration. It is expected to be comprised of students, faculty, alumni, and community members. —Staff writer Melody Y. Hu can be reached at melodyhu@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Brittany M. Llewellyn can be reached at bllewell@fas.harvard.edu. —Eric P. Newcomer contributed to reporting for this story...
...Staff writer Melody Y. Hu can be reached at melodyhu@fas.harvard.edu...
...executives of global mining giant Rio Tinto - one Australian citizen and three Chinese nationals - it seemed a deliberate ratcheting down of a case that had stunned foreign investors in the country. After all, Beijing had effectively dropped the case's most ominous element: the charge that Rio's Stern Hu and his three colleagues had allegedly stolen "state secrets," in part by bribing executives of Chinese steel companies, who are Rio's largest buyers of iron ore. Under a state-secrets charge, the four men faced the prospect of a secret trial and the possibility of lifetime sentences. Now that...
...China's response is three-pronged. First, the case against Hu and his Rio colleagues, which Vice Commerce Minister Fu Ziying earlier this week insisted will show foreign investors that China is "ruled by law now," will proceed. And while the industry insiders interviewed by TIME do not have detailed knowledge of the specific charges likely to be brought against the Rio executives, they describe the steel and mining businesses - in China as well as other developing countries - as industries in which "side deals" involving key principles like executives and government officials are common. Despite Walsh's assertion that there...
Whatever the cause, the case against Hu and his colleagues remains serious, although Australia's Foreign Minister noted on July 20 that the four could conceivably be spared the espionage charges and tried for lesser criminal misconduct--which would go a long way toward smoothing the waters. Healing the wider mistrust between China and its trading partners will be harder...