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...mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred...
...Wootan should know. In January, the CSPI filed notice of intent to sue media giant Viacom, the owner of popular children's network Nickelodeon, and Kellogg for allegedly harming children's health by using popular cartoon characters to market junk food on packaging and advertising on kid-friendly websites and top-rated kids' television shows. Wootan says negotiations with Kellogg are going well, but expects CSPI will sue Nickelodeon...
...will be the unavoidable consequence of creating “formal procedures.” The ideals of initiative are noble—and might be justified if Harvard’s extracurricular atmosphere was somehow failing—but the proposal falls far short of its intent. In addition to the pedagogical value of activities, the faculty expresses hope that course-related activities will encourage teamwork and foster student-faculty interaction. But current student organizations are already built on teamwork. And, while student-faculty contact could certainly be improved, this unwieldy framework is not the best means of doing...
...Harvard already has renowned collections of early Chinese jade and bronze, as well as later Chinese ceramic, but had few pieces of early ceramic. With his goal in mind, Sedgwick focused on building this collection for the past 10 years; “Right from the beginning with the intent that it would come to Harvard. It was tailor made for the museum,” said Mowry. “The collection allows the museum to provide a continuous narrative of the development of Chinese ceramic history from the Neolithic to the Qing,” Lippit said. This...
...what's legal and what's not when it comes to pretexting - just ask the Hewlett-Packard lawyers. In addition to the states that have anti-pretexting laws, general fraud statutes may cover pretexting, but those statutes don't specifically refer to the practice and they require proving intent and financial damages, a bar prosecutors often can't meet. Winning these kinds of cases can be difficult, says Robert Gellman, a Washington-based privacy consultant, because "with most privacy suits it's hard to prove you were actually damaged if you didn't lose your...