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...John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced last week that it had selected John S. Carroll as the first Knight Visiting Lecturer, a position that will focus on journalism and public policy and will be based at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). The Knight Foundation, which advocates journalism and community service, founded the lectureship in a joint project with the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy to attract nationally recognized, practicing journalists. Those selected as Knight lecturers receive a $200,000 grant, which they can use to research at the university of their choice...
...effort to get ahead of the protests, Nike in 1998 appointed its first CSR director. Last April it revealed how far it had traveled along the path to CSR redemption when it released a report in which chairman Philip Knight apologized for his laggardly response to the crisis in the 1990s. In an unprecedented move, Nike also laid bare not only the audits of its suppliers but also its entire supply chain. Nike has found that some of its suppliers still permit physical and verbal abuse of laborers, but its brand is once again glistening...
...you’re a fine, strapping, muscular young fellow—tall and strong as a to’-gall’n’-m’st—taut as a forestay—aye, and a barrow-knight to boot, if all had their rights!” he exclaims.There is a split-second of silence from the wings and the pit as all eyes swivel towards the “fine, strapping, muscular young fellow”—and then, a burst of unscripted laughter. Gilbert and Sullivan might have intended Robin...
...stay ahead of the reader. So a cartoon stand-in for Lendler keeps turning up to urge the reader to slow down for Ned's sake and to please, please not turn the page yet. Now, what youngster can resist defying such a request? The narrative, a standard knight-rescuing-an-imprisoned-princess tale, unravels ridiculously as the overwhelmed Ned is forced to improvise. Tutus are substituted for missing armor, a giant pretzel replaces a dragon, and the hero falls through a hole in a half-drawn floor. Ultimately Ned quits, and a desperate Lendler runs out of the letter...
...that would be it for Harvard. With Dylan Reese tucked safely into the penalty box for high sticking just nine seconds into the second period, Golden Knight Jeff Genovy pushed the puck past Daigneau from between the circles for the 3-2 lead...