Word: labors
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...apples in the Thayer Hall basement to plan the campaign for Slow Food Harvard, a new group that aims to promote sustainable eating habits among students.“It’s a cause that people come at from the environmental side, from a gourmet side, from a labor side,” said founder Francesca T. Gilberti ’10, who is also a Crimson magazine editor. “It’s all-inclusive.”LOCAVORES UNITEPopularized as the “locavore” movement, the trend of buying local has swept...
...Wonder Emporium” bears a strong resemblance to “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” except that Mr. Magorium, the Mr. Wonka parallel, doesn’t appear to have a personality disorder and doesn’t use pygmy labor. Unfortunately, “Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium” fails to match, much less outdo, the Wonka story in its breadth of imagination and originality, compensating for its shortcomings with special effects and the celebrity of its two leads. Mr. Magorium’s empire centers around a strange...
...detractors would vanish in their sleep by her newly established secret police. Her aggressive capitalist tendencies will dominate student group financial matters, forcing student groups to be bold and innovative in order to obtain funds, eventually resulting in mega-conglomerate student groups, such as the Harvard College Baptist Labor Southeast Asian Rugby Advocacy Society A Capella Dance Troupe Association sponsored by the Phillips Brooks House Association and Microsoft...
...lived in China for a few years; his son-in-law is Chinese-Australian, and his two sons are studying Chinese. "I don't think there are too many more people in the Parliament of Australia who know more about China than I do," Rudd said soon after becoming Labor leader. His longest on-camera interview during the campaign was with China's CCTV network. "I look forward to taking the relationship between China and Australia to a whole new level," he said. Rudd wants Australia to be "the most China-literate and Asia-literate economy" in the West. Colin...
...last part is crucial. If India wants to keep the suitors coming, it will have to do more to reform its business climate and address foreign companies' concerns on everything from corruption to its tangled bureaucracy to widespread environmental, child labor and health issues. Earlier this month, a Norwegian sovereign fund withdrew investments from Indian-owned mining firm Vedanta Resources over its environmental practices in India. And big-box European chains like Carrefour are frustrated over the slow pace of reform in India's retail sector, where complete foreign ownership of multi-brand retail outlets is still not allowed. Partly...